Aleksander Alekseev <afiskon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hello. > > Suggested patch solves two issues: > > 1) Currently documentation is unclear whether `make kselftest` should > be run before or after kernel was installed and booted. `make help` > gives a clear answer on that: "kselftest - Build and run kernel selftest > (run as root). Build, install, and boot kernel before running kselftest > on it." ... > --- a/Documentation/kselftest.txt > +++ b/Documentation/kselftest.txt > @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ > Linux Kernel Selftests > > The kernel contains a set of "self tests" under the tools/testing/selftests/ > -directory. These are intended to be small unit tests to exercise individual > -code paths in the kernel. > +directory. These are intended to be small tests to exercise individual code > +paths in the kernel. User supposed to run these tests after building, > +installing and booting a kernel. Actually most of them are not really meant to be run by "users". Rather they're meant for kernel developers to test things. Also some of them don't exercise code paths "in the kernel", they build kernel code into userspace tests and run those. cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kselftest" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
