linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] livepatch: Move tests from lib/livepatch to selftests/livepatch

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Message-ID: <Zaf08hx8fBj6TW5/@li-008a6a4c-3549-11b2-a85c-c5cc2836eea2.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:40:34 +0100
From: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@...e.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>, Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] livepatch: Move tests from lib/livepatch to
 selftests/livepatch

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 02:43:51PM -0300, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote:

Hi Marcos!

> Having the modules being built as out-of-modules requires changing the
> currently used 'modprobe' by 'insmod' and adapt the test scripts that
> check for the kernel message buffer.

Please, correct me if I am wrong, but with this change one would
require a configured build environment and kernel tree that matches
running kernel in order to run tests. Is that correct?

Thanks!