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authorCristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>2019-09-26 20:52:18 +0300
committerShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>2019-10-01 22:19:04 +0300
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kselftest: add capability to skip chosen TARGETS
Let the user specify an optional TARGETS skiplist through the new optional SKIP_TARGETS Makefile variable. It is easier to skip at will using a reduced and well defined list of possibly problematic targets with SKIP_TARGETS than to provide a partially stripped down list of good targets using the usual TARGETS variable. Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -89,6 +89,22 @@ To build, save output files in a separate directory with KBUILD_OUTPUT ::
$ export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/kselftest; make TARGETS="size timers" kselftest
+Additionally you can use the "SKIP_TARGETS" variable on the make command
+line to specify one or more targets to exclude from the TARGETS list.
+
+To run all tests but a single subsystem::
+
+ $ make -C tools/testing/selftests SKIP_TARGETS=ptrace run_tests
+
+You can specify multiple tests to skip::
+
+ $ make SKIP_TARGETS="size timers" kselftest
+
+You can also specify a restricted list of tests to run together with a
+dedicated skiplist::
+
+ $ make TARGETS="bpf breakpoints size timers" SKIP_TARGETS=bpf kselftest
+
See the top-level tools/testing/selftests/Makefile for the list of all
possible targets.