On 1/22/24 10:37, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote:
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 10:15 -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
On 1/12/24 10:43, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote:
Add TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR variable for kselftests. It can point to
a directory containing kernel modules that will be used by
selftest scripts.
The modules are built as external modules for the running kernel.
As a result they are always binary compatible and the same tests
can be used for older or newer kernels.
The build requires "kernel-devel" package to be installed.
For example, in the upstream sources, the rpm devel package
is produced by "make rpm-pkg"
The modules can be built independently by
make -C tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/
or they will be automatically built before running the tests via
make -C tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/ run_tests
Note that they are _not_ built when running the standalone
tests by calling, for example, ./test-state.sh.
Along with TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR, it was necessary to create a new
install
rule. INSTALL_MODS_RULE is needed because INSTALL_SINGLE_RULE would
copy the entire TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR directory to the destination,
even
the files created by Kbuild to compile the modules. The new install
rule copies only the .ko files, as we would expect the gen_tar to
work.
Reviewed-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@xxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst | 4 ++++
tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++-
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Hi Marcos,
I would like the doc patch and lib.mk patch separate. If lib.mk needs
changes
we don't have to touch the doc patch.
Hi Shuah,
on patch 2/3 you also said that you would like to have the
documentation changes split in the future, and that you picked the
changes into a testing branch. Does it also applies to this patch?
No need to do anything now. I just applied the series to linux-kselftest next
thanks,
-- Shuah
