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authorArthur She <arthur.she@linaro.org>2014-09-18 11:25:00 -0700
committerArthur She <arthur.she@linaro.org>2014-09-18 11:25:00 -0700
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Update to 0111d0f13469831266d716e3b50d580a3e25cff9 from repo http://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git branch linux-linaro-lsk-v3.140111d0f13469831266d716e3b50d580a3e25cff9linux-linaro-stable-3.14
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@@ -4,15 +4,8 @@ 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.
-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)
-=============================================================
+Running the selftests
+=====================
To build the tests:
@@ -25,26 +18,14 @@ To run the tests:
- note that some tests will require root privileges.
-To run only tests targeted for a single subsystem: (including
-hotplug targets in limited mode)
+
+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.
-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
======================