Re: [PATCH v2 linux-next] tools: selftests - create a separate hotplug target for full range test

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed,  2 Jul 2014 09:51:38 -0600 Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com> wrote:

> On some systems, hot-plug tests could hang forever waiting for cpu and
> memory to be ready to be offlined. A special hot-plug target is created
> to run full range of hot-plug tests. In default mode, hot-plug tests run
> in safe mode with a limited scope. In limited mode, cpu-hotplug test is
> run on a single cpu as opposed to all hotplug capable cpus, and memory
> hotplug test is run on 2% of hotplug capable memory instead of 10%. In
> addition to the above change, cpu-hotplug is chnged to change processor
> affinity to cpu 0 so it doesn't impact itself while the test runs.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/README.txt
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/README.txt
> @@ -4,8 +4,15 @@ 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
> -=====================
> +On some systems, hot-plug tests could hang forever waiting for cpu and
> +memory to be ready to be offlined. A special hot-plug target is created
> +to run full range of hot-plug tests. In default mode, hot-plug tests run
> +in safe mode with a limited scope. In limited mode, cpu-hotplug test is
> +run on a single cpu as opposed to all hotplug capable cpus, and memory
> +hotplug test is run on 2% of hotplug capable memory instead of 10%.
> +
> +Running the selftests (hotplug tests are run in limited mode)
> +=============================================================
>  
>  To build the tests:
>  
> @@ -18,14 +25,26 @@ To run the tests:
>  
>  - note that some tests will require root privileges.
>  
> -
> -To run only tests targetted for a single subsystem:
> +To run only tests targeted for a single subsystem: (including
> +hotplug targets in limited mode)
>  
>    $  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.
>  
> +Running the full range hotplug selftests
> +========================================
> +
> +To build the tests:
> +
> +  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests hotplug

Well.  `make -C tools/testing/selftests' will build the hotplug tests,
won't it?  We may as well *compile* everything by default..

> 
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