Re: [PATCH] Kprobes: Add kprobes smoke tests that run on boot

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jan 09 2008 - 03:00:26 EST


On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:18:02PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > kernel/kprobes.c | 2
> > > kernel/test_kprobes.c | 216 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > Can you put this somewhere else please? I know there are already some
> > test files in kernel/* but imho they all belong into some other
> > directory.
>
> agreed - lib/* would be the right place i think - we've got
> lib/locking-selftest.c already.

Actually the right place would be to have a separate toplevel directory
I think, and a separate menu in the kernel config machinery. Thay way
tests are in one place and easily spottable.

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