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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:45:32 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v6] locking/selftest: Support queued rwlock
From: Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>,
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 09:05:53AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> Maybe if tools doesn't sounds right, we could move testing from under tools
>> and have it be testing
>
> No, tools/testing/ is all userspace stuff afaict.
>
>> We have several selftests spread around in the kernel tree. It makes it easier
>> to pull them under a single make target devtest. I sent in a patch add devtest
>> target that runs tests that are under tools/testing/selftests a couple of
>> weeks ago, hopefully it will be included in 3.17. I am working towards pulling
>> more kernel selftests that exist under this devtest umbrella. That is
>> the motivation
>
> A link to the patch might've been useful.. but no that's pointless,
> there is no userspace component to locking-selftest, so your build/run
> target is bloody pointless.

Makes sense. Thanks,
-- Shuah