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[07/14] docs/devel: document how to run individual TCG tests

Message ID 20240729144414.830369-8-alex.bennee@linaro.org
State Superseded
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Series Various fixes and tweaks for 9.1-rc0/1 | expand

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Alex Bennée July 29, 2024, 2:44 p.m. UTC 
Since 6f6ca067d2 (tests/tcg: add some help output for running
individual tests) we made it easier to run individual tests for a
given architecture. Lets reference that in the developer
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
---
 docs/devel/testing.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

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Richard Henderson July 29, 2024, 10:25 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 7/30/24 00:44, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Since 6f6ca067d2 (tests/tcg: add some help output for running
> individual tests) we made it easier to run individual tests for a
> given architecture. Lets reference that in the developer
> documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée<alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>   docs/devel/testing.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>

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diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
index b984c5dd26..af73d3d64f 100644
--- a/docs/devel/testing.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst
@@ -1490,6 +1490,19 @@  And run with::
 Adding ``V=1`` to the invocation will show the details of how to
 invoke QEMU for the test which is useful for debugging tests.
 
+Running individual tests
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Tests can also be run directly from the test build directory. If you
+run ``make help`` from the test build directory you will get a list of
+all the tests that can be run. Please note that same binaries are used
+in multiple tests, for example::
+
+  make run-plugin-test-mmap-with-libinline.so
+
+will run the mmap test with the ``libinline.so`` TCG plugin. The
+gdbstub tests also re-use the test binaries but while exercising gdb.
+
 TCG test dependencies
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~