As per a discussion with Muhammad Usama Anjum [1], the following is how one is supposed to build selftests:
make headers && make -C tools/testing/selftests/mm
However, that's not yet documented anywhere. So add it to Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst .
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/bf910fa5-0c96-3707-cce4-5bcc656b6274@collabora.c...
Cc: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum usama.anjum@collabora.com Cc: Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Hubbard jhubbard@nvidia.com --- Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst index 12b575b76b20..6e35d042199c 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Running the selftests (hotplug tests are run in limited mode)
To build the tests::
+ $ make headers $ make -C tools/testing/selftests
To run the tests::