kernel - Regarding tools/testing/ktests or selftests

[Pintu Kumar]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 01:15:11PM +0530, Pintu Kumar 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 ?
>
> It depends on what you want to do, but usually new things go in the
> selftest section.
>
>> 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 ?
>
> Have you read the documentation the kernel has for this:
> $ make help | grep test
> Kernel selftest:
>   kselftest       - Build and run kernel selftest (run as root)
>                     running kselftest on it
>   kselftest-clean - Remove all generated kselftest files
>   kselftest-merge - Merge all the config dependencies of kselftest to existed
>
>> 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.
>
> Have you looked at the many patches in the kernel source tree that show
> how the existing tests are added?  That's the best thing to use as a
> template.
>
> Hope this helps,

Yes, I have seen many documentation and also the existing repos under selftests.
But my requirement is little different.
I think my requirement is some what similar to futex repo.
Currently I am trying to under it. But still I am facing some issues
in generating my 2 executable using kselftests.
Also I found that current document does not explain much about how to
include new tests.

My requirement is as follows:
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 how to make use of selftest framework to generate
these 2 executable, and also execute my 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?


>
> greg k-h