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    livepatch: Move tests from lib/livepatch to selftests/livepatch · c4bbe83d
    Marcos Paulo de Souza authored
    The modules are being moved from lib/livepatch to
    tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test_modules.
    
    This code moving will allow writing more complex tests, like for example an
    userspace C code that will call a livepatched kernel function.
    
    The modules are now built as out-of-tree
    modules, but being part of the kernel source means they will be maintained.
    
    Another advantage of the code moving is to be able to easily change,
    debug and rebuild the tests by running make on the selftests/livepatch
    directory, which is not currently possible since the modules on
    lib/livepatch are build and installed using the "modules" target.
    
    The current approach also keeps the ability to execute the tests manually
    by executing the scripts inside selftests/livepatch directory, as it's
    currently supported. If the modules are modified, they needed to be
    rebuilt before running the scripts though.
    
    The modules are built before running the selftests when using the
    kselftest invocations:
    
    	make kselftest TARGETS=livepatch
    or
    	make -C tools/testing/selftests/livepatch run_tests
    
    Having the modules being built as out-of-modules requires changing the
    currently used 'modprobe' by 'insmod' and adapt the test scripts that
    check for the kernel message buffer.
    
    Now it is possible to only compile the modules by running:
    
    	make -C tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/
    
    This way the test modules and other test program can be built in order
    to be packaged if so desired.
    
    As there aren't any modules being built on lib/livepatch, remove the
    TEST_LIVEPATCH Kconfig and it's references.
    
    Note: "make gen_tar" packages the pre-built binaries into the tarball.
           It means that it will store the test modules pre-built for
           the kernel running on the build host.
    
           Note that these modules need not binary compatible with
           the kernel built from the same sources. But the same
           is true for other packaged selftest binaries.
    
           The entire kernel sources are needed for rebuilding
           the selftests on another system.
    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>
    Acked-by: default avatarAlexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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