kselftest: Move the docs to the Documentation dir
Also, adjust the formatting a bit, and expand the section about using TARGETS= on the make command line. Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sonymobile.com> Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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		|  | @ -15,37 +15,45 @@ Running the selftests (hotplug tests are run in limited mode) | |||
| ============================================================= | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| To build the tests: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ make -C tools/testing/selftests | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| To run the tests: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| To build and run the tests with a single command, use: | ||||
|   $ make kselftest | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| - note that some tests will require root privileges. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| To run only tests targeted for a single subsystem: (including | ||||
| hotplug targets in limited mode) | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   $  make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=cpu-hotplug run_tests | ||||
| Running a subset of selftests | ||||
| ======================================== | ||||
| You can use the "TARGETS" variable on the make command line to specify | ||||
| single test to run, or a list of tests to run. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| To run only tests targeted for a single subsystem: | ||||
|   $  make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=ptrace run_tests | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| You can specify multiple tests to build and run: | ||||
|   $  make TARGETS="size timers" kselftest | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| See the top-level tools/testing/selftests/Makefile for the list of all | ||||
| possible targets. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| 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: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| To build the hotplug tests: | ||||
|   $ make -C tools/testing/selftests hotplug | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| To run the tests: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| To run the hotplug tests: | ||||
|   $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_hotplug | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| - note that some tests will require root privileges. | ||||
| 
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| 
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| Contributing new tests | ||||
| ====================== | ||||
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