Linux Kernel Selftest Framework

Kselftest is an effort to enable a developer-focused unit test framework in the kernel to ensure the quality of new kernel releases.
- Shua Khan

Install and run Linux kernel selftests on Ubuntu 16.04

Presentation [slides](reference: http://www.elinux.org/images/6/61/Linux_Kernel_Selftest_Framework_-_Quality_Control_for_New_Releases.pdf) by Shua Khan on self test framework.
Git [repository](git: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest.git) for the project.

Test machine

Product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Kernel: Linux 4.10.0-rc6+ x86_64 GNU/Linux

Build on Ubuntu

The following packages are required

libcap-ng-dev
libnuma-dev
libcap-dev
libpopt-dev
libmount-dev

$ KTREE = /path/to/kernel/tree  
$ cd $KTREE/tools/testing/selftests  
$ make  

Run

Some tests require root privileges to run

$ sudo make run_tests

Your machine may appear to die as the tests start. Tests run in approx 10 minutes on this machine, your results may vary.

Test targets may be specified using

$ sudo make TARGETS='size' run_tests
$ sudo make TARGETS='net networking' run_tests

Single or multiple targets are accepted. Target names come from directory names under tools/testing/selftests.