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    kselftests: lib.mk: Add TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR variable · 6727980b
    Marcos Paulo de Souza authored
    Add TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR variable for kselftests. It can point to
    a directory containing kernel modules that will be used by
    selftest scripts.
    
    The modules are built as external modules for the running kernel.
    As a result they are always binary compatible and the same tests
    can be used for older or newer kernels.
    
    The build requires "kernel-devel" package to be installed.
    For example, in the upstream sources, the rpm devel package
    is produced by "make rpm-pkg"
    
    The modules can be built independently by
    
      make -C tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/
    
    or they will be automatically built before running the tests via
    
      make -C tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/ run_tests
    
    Note that they are _not_ built when running the standalone
    tests by calling, for example, ./test-state.sh.
    
    Along with TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR, it was necessary to create a new install
    rule. INSTALL_MODS_RULE is needed because INSTALL_SINGLE_RULE would
    copy the entire TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR directory to the destination, even
    the files created by Kbuild to compile the modules. The new install
    rule copies only the .ko files, as we would expect the gen_tar to work.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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