linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 0/3] Add unit test module for AMD P-State driver

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Date:   Fri, 22 Apr 2022 11:45:53 -0600
From:   Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Meng Li <li.meng@....com>, Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Nathan Fontenot <nathan.fontenot@....com>,
        Deepak Sharma <deepak.sharma@....com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>,
        Jinzhou Su <Jinzhou.Su@....com>,
        Perry Yuan <Perry.Yuan@....com>,
        Xiaojian Du <Xiaojian.Du@....com>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/3] Add unit test module for AMD P-State driver

On 4/21/22 1:41 AM, Meng Li wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> AMD P-State unit test(amd_pstate_testmod) is a kernel module for testing
> the functions of amd-pstate driver.
> It could import as a module to launch some test tasks.
> 1) It can help all users to verify their processor support (SBIOS/Firmware
> or Hardware).
> 2) Kernel can have a basic function test to avoid the kernel regression
> during the update.
> 3) We can introduce more functional or performance tests to align the
> together, it will benefit power and performance scale optimization.
> 
> We upstream out AMD P-state driver into Linux kernel and use this unit
> test module to verify the required conditions and basic functions of
> amd-pstate before integration test.
> 
> We use test module in the kselftest frameworks to implement it.
> We create amd_pstate_testmod module and tie it into kselftest.
> 
> For example: The test case aput_acpi_cpc is used to check whether the
> _CPC object is exist in SBIOS.
> The amd-pstate initialization will fail if the _CPC in ACPI SBIOS is not
> existed at the detected processor, so it is a necessary condition.
> 
> At present, it only implements the basic framework and some simple test
> cases.
> 
> TODO : 1) we will add a rst document.

Please include document in this series and describe how the test can be run.
It is not clear to me how use should go about running this test especially
since the script depends on a test module which will need to be compiled
and loaded.

I would like to see clear details in the document on the steps involved in
running the test.

> 2) we will add more test cases to improve the depth and coverage of
> the test.
> 
thanks,
-- Shuah