linux/tools/testing/selftests
Linus Torvalds 235c7b9feb Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull main powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "This time around, the powerpc merges are going to be a little bit more
  complicated than usual.

  This is the main pull request with most of the work for this merge
  window.  I will describe it a bit more further down.

  There is some additional cpuidle driver work, however I haven't
  included it in this tree as it depends on some work in tip/timer-core
  which Thomas accidentally forgot to put in a topic branch.  Since I
  didn't want to carry all of that tip timer stuff in powerpc -next, I
  setup a separate branch on top of Thomas tree with just that cpuidle
  driver in it, and Stephen has been carrying that in next separately
  for a while now.  I'll send a separate pull request for it.

  Additionally, two new pieces in this tree add users for a sysfs API
  that Tejun and Greg have been deprecating in drivers-core-next.
  Thankfully Greg reverted the patch that removes the old API so this
  merge can happen cleanly, but once merged, I will send a patch
  adjusting our new code to the new API so that Greg can send you the
  removal patch.

  Now as for the content of this branch, we have a lot of perf work for
  power8 new counters including support for our new "nest" counters
  (also called 24x7) under pHyp (not natively yet).

  We have new functionality when running under the OPAL firmware
  (non-virtualized or KVM host), such as access to the firmware error
  logs and service processor dumps, system parameters and sensors, along
  with a hwmon driver for the latter.

  There's also a bunch of bug fixes accross the board, some LE fixes,
  and a nice set of selftests for validating our various types of copy
  loops.

  On the Freescale side, we see mostly new chip/board revisions, some
  clock updates, better support for machine checks and debug exceptions,
  etc..."

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (70 commits)
  powerpc/book3s: Fix CFAR clobbering issue in machine check handler.
  powerpc/compat: 32-bit little endian machine name is ppcle, not ppc
  powerpc/le: Big endian arguments for ppc_rtas()
  powerpc: Use default set of netfilter modules (CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n)
  powerpc/defconfigs: Enable THP in pseries defconfig
  powerpc/mm: Make sure a local_irq_disable prevent a parallel THP split
  powerpc: Rate-limit users spamming kernel log buffer
  powerpc/perf: Fix handling of L3 events with bank == 1
  powerpc/perf/hv_{gpci, 24x7}: Add documentation of device attributes
  powerpc/perf: Add kconfig option for hypervisor provided counters
  powerpc/perf: Add support for the hv 24x7 interface
  powerpc/perf: Add support for the hv gpci (get performance counter info) interface
  powerpc/perf: Add macros for defining event fields & formats
  powerpc/perf: Add a shared interface to get gpci version and capabilities
  powerpc/perf: Add 24x7 interface headers
  powerpc/perf: Add hv_gpci interface header
  powerpc: Add hvcalls for 24x7 and gpci (Get Performance Counter Info)
  sysfs: create bin_attributes under the requested group
  powerpc/perf: Enable BHRB access for EBB events
  powerpc/perf: Add BHRB constraint and IFM MMCRA handling for EBB
  ...
2014-04-02 13:42:59 -07:00
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breakpoints breakpoint selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error 2012-12-17 17:15:27 -08:00
cpu-hotplug tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts 2013-07-03 16:08:07 -07:00
efivarfs efivars: efivarfs_valid_name() should handle pstore syntax 2013-03-06 14:46:04 +00:00
ipc tools/testing/selftests/ipc/msgque.c: handle msgget failure return correctly 2014-03-10 17:26:21 -07:00
kcmp selftests: add .gitignore for kcmp 2013-07-03 16:08:07 -07:00
memory-hotplug tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts 2013-07-03 16:08:07 -07:00
mqueue mqueue selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error 2012-12-17 17:15:26 -08:00
net tools: selftests: psock_tpacket: get rid of macro wrappers 2013-07-02 00:23:57 -07:00
powerpc selftests/powerpc: Import Anton's memcpy / copy_tofrom_user tests 2014-03-07 15:53:12 +11:00
ptrace selftest: add a test case for PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO 2013-04-30 17:04:05 -07:00
rcutorture rcutorture: Save kvm.sh output to log 2014-02-23 09:04:44 -08:00
timers tools/testing/selftests: fix uninitialized variable 2013-10-16 21:35:53 -07:00
user test: check copy_to/from_user boundary validation 2014-01-23 16:36:57 -08:00
vm selftests: add .gitignore for vm 2013-07-03 16:08:07 -07:00
Makefile test: check copy_to/from_user boundary validation 2014-01-23 16:36:57 -08:00
README.txt selftests: add a simple doc 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00

README.txt

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.

Running the selftests
=====================

To build the tests:

  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests


To run the tests:

  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests

- note that some tests will require root privileges.


To run only tests targetted for a single subsystem:

  $  make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=cpu-hotplug run_tests

See the top-level tools/testing/selftests/Makefile for the list of all possible
targets.


Contributing new tests
======================

In general, the rules for for selftests are

 * Do as much as you can if you're not root;

 * Don't take too long;

 * Don't break the build on any architecture, and

 * Don't cause the top-level "make run_tests" to fail if your feature is
   unconfigured.