[PATCH v6 5/7] Documentation/dev-tools: Use reStructuredText markups for kselftest

From: MickaÃl SalaÃn
Date: Mon Jun 05 2017 - 14:37:51 EST


Include and convert kselftest to the Sphinx format.

Signed-off-by: MickaÃl SalaÃn <mic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

Changes since v2:
* lighten the modifications (suggested by Kees Cook)
---
Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst | 1 +
Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 27 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..9232ce94612c 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
+======================
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
@@ -15,29 +17,34 @@ 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
+To build the tests::

+ make -C tools/testing/selftests

-To run the tests:
- $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests
+To run the tests::

-To build and run the tests with a single command, use:
- $ make kselftest
+ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests

-- note that some tests will require root privileges.
+To build and run the tests with a single command, use::
+
+ 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
+To run only tests targeted for a single subsystem::

-You can specify multiple tests to build and run:
- $ make TARGETS="size timers" kselftest
+ make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=ptrace run_tests
+
+You can specify multiple tests to build and run::
+
+ make TARGETS="size timers" kselftest

See the top-level tools/testing/selftests/Makefile for the list of all
possible targets.
@@ -46,13 +53,15 @@ possible targets.
Running the full range hotplug selftests
========================================

-To build the hotplug tests:
- $ make -C tools/testing/selftests hotplug
+To build the hotplug tests::

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

-- note that some tests will require root privileges.
+To run the hotplug tests::
+
+ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_hotplug
+
+Note that some tests will require root privileges.


Install selftests
@@ -62,13 +71,15 @@ 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
+To install selftests in default location::

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

Running installed selftests
===========================
@@ -79,8 +90,10 @@ 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
+::
+
+ cd kselftest
+ ./run_kselftest.sh

Contributing new tests
======================
@@ -96,8 +109,8 @@ 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.
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