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2021-04-15Documentation: dev-tools: Add Testing OverviewDavid Gow
The kernel now has a number of testing and debugging tools, and we've seen a bit of confusion about what the differences between them are. Add a basic documentation outlining the testing tools, when to use each, and how they interact. This is a pretty quick overview rather than the idealised "kernel testing guide" that'd probably be optimal, but given the number of times questions like "When do you use KUnit and when do you use Kselftest?" are being asked, it seemed worth at least having something. Hopefully this can form the basis for more detailed documentation later. Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210415054036.581117-1-davidgow@google.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-03-06docs: add documentation for checkpatchDwaipayan Ray
Add documentation for kernel script checkpatch.pl. This documentation is also parsed by checkpatch to enable a verbose mode. The checkpatch message types are grouped by usage. Under each group the types are described briefly. 34 of such types are documented. Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210226093827.12700-2-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-02-26kfence, Documentation: add KFENCE documentationMarco Elver
Add KFENCE documentation in dev-tools/kfence.rst, and add to index. [elver@google.com: add missing copyright header to documentation] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210118092159.145934-4-elver@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201103175841.3495947-8-elver@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Co-developed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Joern Engel <joern@purestorage.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-12-30Merge tag 'v5.5-rc4' into locking/kcsan, to resolve conflictsIngo Molnar
Conflicts: init/main.c lib/Kconfig.debug Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-11-16kcsan: Add Documentation entry in dev-toolsMarco Elver
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2019-09-30Documentation: kunit: add documentation for KUnitBrendan Higgins
Add documentation for KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework. - Add intro and usage guide for KUnit - Add API reference Signed-off-by: Felix Guo <felixguoxiuping@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-11-25Documentation: dev-tools: Fix typos in index.rstShreyans Devendra Doshi
Fixes a spelling error and removes an extra whitespace character. Signed-off-by: Shreyans Devendra Doshi <0xinfosect0r@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-11-15kmemcheck: rip it outLevin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
Fix up makefiles, remove references, and git rm kmemcheck. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-4-alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Tim Hansen <devtimhansen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-07Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-4.13-rc1-update' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest Pull Kselftest updates from Shuah Khan: "This update consists of: - TAP13 framework and changes to some tests to convert to TAP13. Converting kselftest output to standard format will help identify run to run differences and pin point failures easily. TAP13 format has been in use for several years and the output is human friendly. Please find the specification: https://testanything.org/tap-version-13-specification.html Credit goes to Tim Bird for recommending TAP13 as a suitable format, and to Grag KH for kick starting the work with help from Paul Elder and Alice Ferrazzi The first phase of the TAp13 conversion is included in this update. Future updates will include updates to rest of the tests. - Masami Hiramatsu fixed ftrace to run on 4.9 stable kernels. - Kselftest documnetation has been converted to ReST format. Document now has a new home under Documentation/dev-tools. - kselftest_harness.h is now available for general use as a result of Mickaël Salaün's work. - Several fixes to skip and/or fail tests gracefully on older releases" * tag 'linux-kselftest-4.13-rc1-update' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: (48 commits) selftests: membarrier: use ksft_* var arg msg api selftests: breakpoints: breakpoint_test_arm64: convert test to use TAP13 selftests: breakpoints: step_after_suspend_test use ksft_* var arg msg api selftests: breakpoint_test: use ksft_* var arg msg api kselftest: add ksft_print_msg() function to output general information kselftest: make ksft_* output functions variadic selftests/capabilities: Fix the test_execve test selftests: intel_pstate: add .gitignore selftests: fix memory-hotplug test selftests: add missing test name in memory-hotplug test selftests: check percentage range for memory-hotplug test selftests: check hot-pluggagble memory for memory-hotplug test selftests: typo correction for memory-hotplug test selftests: ftrace: Use md5sum to take less time of checking logs tools/testing/selftests/sysctl: Add pre-check to the value of writes_strict kselftest.rst: do some adjustments after ReST conversion selftest/net/Makefile: Specify output with $(OUTPUT) selftest/intel_pstate/aperf: Use LDLIBS instead of LDFLAGS selftest/memfd/Makefile: Fix build error selftests: lib: Skip tests on missing test modules ...
2017-06-07Documentation/dev-tools: Use reStructuredText markups for kselftestMickaël Salaün
Include and convert kselftest to the Sphinx format. Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
2017-05-16docs-rst: convert kgdb DocBook to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab
Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-26doc-rst: make dev-tools folder buildable stand-aloneMarkus Heiser
Add minimal conf.py and moved dev-tools/tools.rst to dev-tools/index.rst makes the dev-tools folder buildable stand-alone. To build only this folder run:: make SPHINXDIRS=dev-tools htmldocs make SPHINXDIRS=dev-tools pdfdocs Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>