Re: [PATCH] selftests: riscv: Add README for RISC-V KSelfTest

[Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:37:24PM +0530, Bala-Vignesh-Reddy wrote:
> Add a README file for RISC-V specific kernel selftests under
> tools/testing/selftests/riscv/. This mirrors the existing README
> for arm64, providing clear guidance on how the tests are architecture
> specific and skipped on non-riscv systems. It also includes
> standard make commands for building, running and installing the
> tests, along with a reference to general kselftest documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bala-Vignesh-Reddy <reddybalavignesh9979@gmail.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/riscv/README | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/README
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/riscv/README b/tools/testing/selftests/riscv/README
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..443da395da68
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/riscv/README
> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> +KSelfTest RISC-V
> +================
> +
> +- These tests are riscv specific and so not built or run but just skipped
> +  completely when env-variable ARCH is found to be different than 'riscv'.
> +
> +- Holding true the above, RISC-V KSFT tests can be run within the
> +  KSelfTest framework using standard Linux top-level-makefile targets:
> +
> +      $ make TARGETS=riscv kselftest-clean
> +      $ make TARGETS=riscv kselftest
> +
> +      or
> +
> +      $ make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=riscv \
> +		INSTALL_PATH=<your-installation-path> install
> +
> +      or, alternatively, only specific riscv/ subtargets can be picked:
> +
> +      $ make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=riscv RISCV_SUBTARGETS="mm vector" \
> +		INSTALL_PATH=<your-installation-path> install
> +
> +   Further details on building and running KSFT can be found in:
> +     Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
> -- 
> 2.43.0
>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>

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