X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.info/?p=cascardo%2Flinux.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fkselftest.txt;h=54bee77fa728576eebeebe71f3896b097bfaa6b7;hp=979eacae243d1c3acb63c7e65b6d35e6cb1aba67;hb=8a1e377e55f2dca5c689926313beeaa8ac2adb22;hpb=e408057767973e13d72bf52604957925720b7142 diff --git a/Documentation/kselftest.txt b/Documentation/kselftest.txt index 979eacae243d..54bee77fa728 100644 --- a/Documentation/kselftest.txt +++ b/Documentation/kselftest.txt @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ Linux Kernel Selftests 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. +directory. These are intended to be small tests to exercise individual code +paths in the kernel. Tests are intended to be run after building, installing +and booting a 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