Re: [Ksummit-discuss] kselftest - What's in 3.17 and plans for 3.18 and beyond

["Bird, Tim" <Tim.Bird@sonymobile.com>]

On Thursday, August 07, 2014 7:36 AM,  Shuah Khan wrote:
> 
> As a first step towards a larger goal to enable developer
> friendly kernel testing framework, a new make target is
> planned for 3.17. In addition, 3.17 includes work done to
> fix tools/testing/sefltests to run without failures.
> 
> Short summary of work done so far for 3.17:
> 
> - fix compile errors and warnings in various tests
> - fix run-time errors when tests aren't run as root
> - enhance and improve cpu and memory hot-plug tests
>    to run in limited scope mode by default. A new make
>    target to select full-scope testing. Prior to this
>    change, cpu and memory hot-plug tests hung trying to
>    hot-plug all but cpu0 and a large portion of the memory.
> - add a new kselftest target to run existing selftests
>    to start with.
> 
> What's planned for 3.18 and beyond:
> 
> - get feedback on the new kselftest target from the community
> - add more tests to be run under kselftest umbrella
> - identify existing tests under /lib and other areas that
>    make a good candidate to be included under kselftest
> - Some of these could be run as a tool and/or a independent
>    test with a few changes and some probably aren't like the
>    /lib/locking tests.
> - As a goal, try to leverage existing tests and modify them
>    as needed to run them as a black-box test (e.g: look into
>    ways to make it run as a tool)
> - Greg KH sparked the kernel selftest idea, has been in the loop
>    for the work done so far, and reviewed the plan for 3.18.

I'm quite interested in this (as is the CEWG), and I have lots of questions.
Will this be discussed/presented at KS or LinuxCon?  Should I ask my
questions on this list or wait until Chicago?  Are there any LKML threads
with info I can look at in the meantime?

Thanks.  This sounds like great work.
 -- Tim