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This wiki is dedicated to holding information about the kselftest feature of the Linux kernel.
The purpose of kselftest is to provide kernel developers and end-users a quick method of running tests against the Linux kernel. As of this writing, Samsung developer Shuah Kahn is the project leader.
kselftest was discussed at the 2014 kernel summit (in August, 2014), with Shuah making a presentation during the "core day" of the summit. Some followup discussions were held during an "unconference" session the following day.
Source code for kselftest tests is contained in the directory tools/testing/selftests
in the kernel source tree.
The kselftest feature (in rough draft form, I'd say) first appeared in kernel version 3.16.
Here is a list of desired features for kselftest – some of which already exist (as of August 2014):
As of August, 2014, Shuah Kahn reported the status of kselftest as follows: (see http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2014-August/001059.html)
Short summary of work done so far for 3.17:
What's planned for 3.18 and beyond:
There are some sub-projects or additional features, that some developers have expressed interest in, for the kselftest system. Below is a bullet list for tracking the status of these different sub-projects: (In parenthesis are some people who have expressed interest in this sub-project or feature) If a link is present then there's a sub-page to discuss that project.
Initially, Shuah started collecting existing unit tests from other places both inside and outside the kernel source tree. Here are some tests that have been discussed or requested:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/shuah/linux-kselftest