kernel - Regarding tools/testing/ktests or selftests

[Pintu Kumar]

Hi,

I am actually interested in kselftests.
My requirement is:
I have a sub folders for test. Example: tools/testing/selftests/<my
folders>/<folder1>
I have my own Makefile, and some set of C source files under folder1
I also have a test script under folder1, that tests 2 executable
generated out of 7 C files.
I wanted to know about to make use of selftest framework to generate
these 2 executable, and also execute by script to run the test.
I have already includes <my folders> in top level Makefile under selftests.
TARGETS = <my folders>

Do, I need to create another Makefile under <my folders> and invoke
folder1/Makefile from there?
Or is there another way?

If anybody have already done a new addition in selftests, please let me know.


Thanks,
Pintu



On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Pintu Kumar <pintu.ping at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is anybody familiar with ktests of selftests framework under: tool/testing/ ?
> I have some queries.
>
> 1) What is the difference between ktests and selftests ? How to choose ?
> 2) How to invoke a test under ktests?
>     For example:
>     I have some user space C program, that tests some kernel driver IOCTL calls.
>     I have a Makefile to build 2 executable for the tests.
>     I invoke those executable from a bash shell script and execute all
> the tests.
>     How can I do it automatically from ktests ?
> 3) Similarly, how can I do it using selftests?
>     Using selftests looks much better option for me.
>     But the problem is I have some sub directories to execute the tests.
>     Example:
>     Under, tools/testing/selftests , I have created 2 sub folders.
>     selftests/folders/folder1/
>     My test setup is under: folder1
>     How to invoke selftests, for folder1 ?
>
> If anybody have added new tests under ktests of selftests, please
> provide some reference.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Pintu