tools: selftests - create a separate hotplug target for full range test
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.
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/README.txt b/tools/testing/selftests/README.txt
index 5e2faf9..2660d5f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/README.txt
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/README.txt
@@ -4,8 +4,15 @@
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 @@
- 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
+
+To run the tests:
+
+ $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_hotplug
+
+- note that some tests will require root privileges.
Contributing new tests
======================
