[PATCH v2 5/6] Documentation/dev-tools: Use reStructuredText markups for kselftest

From: MickaÃl SalaÃn
Date: Tue May 02 2017 - 18:27:58 EST


Include and convert kselftest to the Sphinx format.

Signed-off-by: MickaÃl SalaÃn <mic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst | 1 +
Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst
index 07d881147ef3..e50054c6aeaa 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ whole; patches welcome!
kmemleak
kmemcheck
gdb-kernel-debugging
+ kselftest


.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
index 5bd590335839..39af2cb3d248 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
Linux Kernel Selftests
+======================

The kernel contains a set of "self tests" under the tools/testing/selftests/
directory. These are intended to be small tests to exercise individual code
@@ -13,65 +14,93 @@ 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:
- $ make -C tools/testing/selftests
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ make -C tools/testing/selftests


To run the tests:
- $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests

To build and run the tests with a single command, use:
- $ make kselftest

-- note that some tests will require root privileges.
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ make kselftest
+
+Note that some tests will require root privileges.


Running a subset of selftests
-========================================
+-----------------------------
+
You can use the "TARGETS" variable on the make command line to specify
single test to run, or a list of tests to run.

To run only tests targeted for a single subsystem:
- $ make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=ptrace run_tests
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=ptrace run_tests

You can specify multiple tests to build and run:
- $ make TARGETS="size timers" kselftest
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ make TARGETS="size timers" kselftest

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


Running the full range hotplug selftests
-========================================
+----------------------------------------

To build the hotplug tests:
- $ make -C tools/testing/selftests hotplug
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ make -C tools/testing/selftests hotplug

To run the hotplug tests:
- $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_hotplug

-- note that some tests will require root privileges.
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_hotplug
+
+Note that some tests will require root privileges.


Install selftests
-=================
+-----------------

You can use kselftest_install.sh tool installs selftests in default
location which is tools/testing/selftests/kselftest or a user specified
location.

To install selftests in default location:
- $ cd tools/testing/selftests
- $ ./kselftest_install.sh
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ cd tools/testing/selftests
+ ./kselftest_install.sh

To install selftests in a user specified location:
- $ cd tools/testing/selftests
- $ ./kselftest_install.sh install_dir
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ cd tools/testing/selftests
+ ./kselftest_install.sh install_dir

Running installed selftests
-===========================
+---------------------------

Kselftest install as well as the Kselftest tarball provide a script
named "run_kselftest.sh" to run the tests.
@@ -79,11 +108,13 @@ named "run_kselftest.sh" to run the tests.
You can simply do the following to run the installed Kselftests.ÂPlease
note some tests will require root privileges.

-cd kselftest
-./run_kselftest.sh
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+ cd kselftest
+ ./run_kselftest.sh

Contributing new tests
-======================
+----------------------

In general, the rules for selftests are

@@ -96,8 +127,8 @@ In general, the rules for selftests are
* Don't cause the top-level "make run_tests" to fail if your feature is
unconfigured.

-Contributing new tests(details)
-===============================
+Contributing new tests (details)
+--------------------------------

* Use TEST_GEN_XXX if such binaries or files are generated during
compiling.
--
2.11.0