linux/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-selftests.rst
Vikas Gupta 08f588fa30 devlink: introduce framework for selftests
Add a framework for running selftests.
Framework exposes devlink commands and test suite(s) to the user
to execute and query the supported tests by the driver.

Below are new entries in devlink_nl_ops
devlink_nl_cmd_selftests_show_doit/dumpit: To query the supported
selftests by the drivers.
devlink_nl_cmd_selftests_run: To execute selftests. Users can
provide a test mask for executing group tests or standalone tests.

Documentation/networking/devlink/ path is already part of MAINTAINERS &
the new files come under this path. Hence no update needed to the
MAINTAINERS

Signed-off-by: Vikas Gupta <vikas.gupta@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2022-07-28 21:56:53 -07:00

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
=================
Devlink Selftests
=================
The ``devlink-selftests`` API allows executing selftests on the device.
Tests Mask
==========
The ``devlink-selftests`` command should be run with a mask indicating
the tests to be executed.
Tests Description
=================
The following is a list of tests that drivers may execute.
.. list-table:: List of tests
:widths: 5 90
* - Name
- Description
* - ``DEVLINK_SELFTEST_FLASH``
- Devices may have the firmware on non-volatile memory on the board, e.g.
flash. This particular test helps to run a flash selftest on the device.
Implementation of the test is left to the driver/firmware.
example usage
-------------
.. code:: shell
# Query selftests supported on the devlink device
$ devlink dev selftests show DEV
# Query selftests supported on all devlink devices
$ devlink dev selftests show
# Executes selftests on the device
$ devlink dev selftests run DEV id flash