Commit 82063610 authored by Muhammad Usama Anjum's avatar Muhammad Usama Anjum Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs/kselftest: add more guidelines for adding new tests

Improve and add instructions to add new tests. Add build commands to
test before sending the new test patch.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMuhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220521073651.4191910-1-usama.anjum@collabora.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 6de8d58c
......@@ -208,6 +208,14 @@ In general, the rules for selftests are
Contributing new tests (details)
================================
* In your Makefile, use facilities from lib.mk by including it instead of
reinventing the wheel. Specify flags and binaries generation flags on
need basis before including lib.mk. ::
CFLAGS = $(KHDR_INCLUDES)
TEST_GEN_PROGS := close_range_test
include ../lib.mk
* Use TEST_GEN_XXX if such binaries or files are generated during
compiling.
......@@ -230,13 +238,30 @@ Contributing new tests (details)
* First use the headers inside the kernel source and/or git repo, and then the
system headers. Headers for the kernel release as opposed to headers
installed by the distro on the system should be the primary focus to be able
to find regressions.
to find regressions. Use KHDR_INCLUDES in Makefile to include headers from
the kernel source.
* If a test needs specific kernel config options enabled, add a config file in
the test directory to enable them.
e.g: tools/testing/selftests/android/config
* Create a .gitignore file inside test directory and add all generated objects
in it.
* Add new test name in TARGETS in selftests/Makefile::
TARGETS += android
* All changes should pass::
kselftest-{all,install,clean,gen_tar}
kselftest-{all,install,clean,gen_tar} O=abo_path
kselftest-{all,install,clean,gen_tar} O=rel_path
make -C tools/testing/selftests {all,install,clean,gen_tar}
make -C tools/testing/selftests {all,install,clean,gen_tar} O=abs_path
make -C tools/testing/selftests {all,install,clean,gen_tar} O=rel_path
Test Module
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