kernel_optimize_test/tools/testing/selftests
Felipe Pena c88b05b2cd tools/testing/selftests: fix uninitialized variable
The err variable is intended to receive the timer_create() return before
checking it

Signed-off-by: Felipe Pena <felipensp@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-16 21:35:53 -07:00
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breakpoints
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efivarfs
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kcmp
memory-hotplug
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powerpc selftests: Add test of PMU instruction counting on powerpc 2013-08-14 14:57:10 +10:00
ptrace
timers tools/testing/selftests: fix uninitialized variable 2013-10-16 21:35:53 -07:00
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Makefile
README.txt

Linux Kernel Selftests

The kernel contains a set of "self tests" under the tools/testing/selftests/
directory. These are intended to be small unit tests to exercise individual
code paths in the kernel.

Running the selftests
=====================

To build the tests:

  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests


To run the tests:

  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests

- note that some tests will require root privileges.


To run only tests targetted for a single subsystem:

  $  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.


Contributing new tests
======================

In general, the rules for for selftests are

 * Do as much as you can if you're not root;

 * Don't take too long;

 * Don't break the build on any architecture, and

 * Don't cause the top-level "make run_tests" to fail if your feature is
   unconfigured.