linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selftests/vm: enable running select groups of tests

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Message-Id: <20220814185649.3303b34cfabcaf450c661b4b@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Sun, 14 Aug 2022 18:56:49 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Joel Savitz <jsavitz@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/vm: enable running select groups of tests

On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 18:55:03 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue,  5 Jul 2022 14:56:05 -0400 Joel Savitz <jsavitz@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Add the ability to run one or more groups of vm tests (specified
> > by the environment variable TEST_ITEMS). Preserve existing default
> > behavior of running all tests when TEST_ITEMS is empty or "default".
> 
> Why are we doing this?   Please describe the use case - something I
> can add to the changelog.

Old patch version, please ignore.