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<title>Merge branch 'for-6.11/sysfs-patch-replace' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2024-07-23T15:13:10+00:00</updated>
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<name>Petr Mladek</name>
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<published>2024-07-23T15:13:10+00:00</published>
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<title>selftests/livepatch: Add selftests for "replace" sysfs attribute</title>
<updated>2024-07-02T14:56:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yafang Shao</name>
<email>laoar.shao@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2024-06-25T15:11:22+00:00</published>
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Add selftests for both atomic replace and non atomic replace
livepatches. The result is as follows,

  TEST: sysfs test ... ok
  TEST: sysfs test object/patched ... ok
  TEST: sysfs test replace enabled ... ok
  TEST: sysfs test replace disabled ... ok

Suggested-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240625151123.2750-3-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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Add selftests for both atomic replace and non atomic replace
livepatches. The result is as follows,

  TEST: sysfs test ... ok
  TEST: sysfs test object/patched ... ok
  TEST: sysfs test replace enabled ... ok
  TEST: sysfs test replace disabled ... ok

Suggested-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240625151123.2750-3-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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<title>selftests: livepatch: Test atomic replace against multiple modules</title>
<updated>2024-06-18T08:48:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcos Paulo de Souza</name>
<email>mpdesouza@suse.com</email>
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<published>2024-06-03T17:26:19+00:00</published>
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Adapt the current test-livepatch.sh script to account the number of
applied livepatches and ensure that an atomic replace livepatch disables
all previously applied livepatches.

Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240603-lp-atomic-replace-v3-1-9f3b8ace5c9f@suse.com
[mbenes@suse.cz: Fixed typo in a comment.]
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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Adapt the current test-livepatch.sh script to account the number of
applied livepatches and ensure that an atomic replace livepatch disables
all previously applied livepatches.

Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240603-lp-atomic-replace-v3-1-9f3b8ace5c9f@suse.com
[mbenes@suse.cz: Fixed typo in a comment.]
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selftests/livepatch: define max test-syscall processes</title>
<updated>2024-06-12T14:56:30+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ryan Sullivan</name>
<email>rysulliv@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-06-06T13:53:48+00:00</published>
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Define a maximum allowable number of pids that can be livepatched in
test-syscall.sh as with extremely large machines the output from a
large number of processes overflows the dev/kmsg "expect" buffer in
the "check_result" function and causes a false error.

Reported-by: CKI Project &lt;cki-project@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryan Sullivan &lt;rysulliv@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joel Savitz &lt;jsavitz@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240606135348.4708-1-rysulliv@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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Define a maximum allowable number of pids that can be livepatched in
test-syscall.sh as with extremely large machines the output from a
large number of processes overflows the dev/kmsg "expect" buffer in
the "check_result" function and causes a false error.

Reported-by: CKI Project &lt;cki-project@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryan Sullivan &lt;rysulliv@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joel Savitz &lt;jsavitz@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240606135348.4708-1-rysulliv@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'linux_kselftest-next-6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest</title>
<updated>2024-03-11T16:25:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-11T16:25:33+00:00</published>
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Pull kselftest update from Shuah Khan:

 - livepatch restructuring to move the module out of lib to be built as
   a out-of-tree modules during kselftest build. This makes it easier
   change, debug and rebuild the tests by running make on the
   selftests/livepatch directory, which is not currently possible since
   the modules on lib/livepatch are build and installed using the main
   makefile modules target.

 - livepatch restructuring fixes for problems found by kernel test
   robot. The change skips the test if kernel-devel isn't installed
   (default value of KDIR), or if KDIR variable passed doesn't exists.

 - resctrl test restructuring and new non-contiguous CBMs CAT test

 - new ktap_helpers to print diagnostic messages, pass/fail tests based
   on exit code, abort test, and finish the test.

 - a new test verify power supply properties.

 - a new ftrace to exercise function tracer across cpu hotplug.

 - timeout increase for mqueue test to allow the test to run on i3.metal
   AWS instances.

 - minor spelling corrections in several tests.

 - missing gitignore files and changes to existing gitignore files.

* tag 'linux_kselftest-next-6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: (57 commits)
  kselftest: Add basic test for probing the rust sample modules
  selftests: lib.mk: Do not process TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR
  selftests: livepatch: Avoid running the tests if kernel-devel is missing
  selftests: livepatch: Add initial .gitignore
  selftests/resctrl: Add non-contiguous CBMs CAT test
  selftests/resctrl: Add resource_info_file_exists()
  selftests/resctrl: Split validate_resctrl_feature_request()
  selftests/resctrl: Add a helper for the non-contiguous test
  selftests/resctrl: Add test groups and name L3 CAT test L3_CAT
  selftests: sched: Fix spelling mistake "hiearchy" -&gt; "hierarchy"
  selftests/mqueue: Set timeout to 180 seconds
  selftests/ftrace: Add test to exercize function tracer across cpu hotplug
  selftest: ftrace: fix minor typo in log
  selftests: thermal: intel: workload_hint: add missing gitignore
  selftests: thermal: intel: power_floor: add missing gitignore
  selftests: uevent: add missing gitignore
  selftests: Add test to verify power supply properties
  selftests: ktap_helpers: Add a helper to finish the test
  selftests: ktap_helpers: Add a helper to abort the test
  selftests: ktap_helpers: Add helper to pass/fail test based on exit code
  ...
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Pull kselftest update from Shuah Khan:

 - livepatch restructuring to move the module out of lib to be built as
   a out-of-tree modules during kselftest build. This makes it easier
   change, debug and rebuild the tests by running make on the
   selftests/livepatch directory, which is not currently possible since
   the modules on lib/livepatch are build and installed using the main
   makefile modules target.

 - livepatch restructuring fixes for problems found by kernel test
   robot. The change skips the test if kernel-devel isn't installed
   (default value of KDIR), or if KDIR variable passed doesn't exists.

 - resctrl test restructuring and new non-contiguous CBMs CAT test

 - new ktap_helpers to print diagnostic messages, pass/fail tests based
   on exit code, abort test, and finish the test.

 - a new test verify power supply properties.

 - a new ftrace to exercise function tracer across cpu hotplug.

 - timeout increase for mqueue test to allow the test to run on i3.metal
   AWS instances.

 - minor spelling corrections in several tests.

 - missing gitignore files and changes to existing gitignore files.

* tag 'linux_kselftest-next-6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: (57 commits)
  kselftest: Add basic test for probing the rust sample modules
  selftests: lib.mk: Do not process TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR
  selftests: livepatch: Avoid running the tests if kernel-devel is missing
  selftests: livepatch: Add initial .gitignore
  selftests/resctrl: Add non-contiguous CBMs CAT test
  selftests/resctrl: Add resource_info_file_exists()
  selftests/resctrl: Split validate_resctrl_feature_request()
  selftests/resctrl: Add a helper for the non-contiguous test
  selftests/resctrl: Add test groups and name L3 CAT test L3_CAT
  selftests: sched: Fix spelling mistake "hiearchy" -&gt; "hierarchy"
  selftests/mqueue: Set timeout to 180 seconds
  selftests/ftrace: Add test to exercize function tracer across cpu hotplug
  selftest: ftrace: fix minor typo in log
  selftests: thermal: intel: workload_hint: add missing gitignore
  selftests: thermal: intel: power_floor: add missing gitignore
  selftests: uevent: add missing gitignore
  selftests: Add test to verify power supply properties
  selftests: ktap_helpers: Add a helper to finish the test
  selftests: ktap_helpers: Add a helper to abort the test
  selftests: ktap_helpers: Add helper to pass/fail test based on exit code
  ...
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<title>selftests: livepatch: Avoid running the tests if kernel-devel is missing</title>
<updated>2024-02-28T00:03:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcos Paulo de Souza</name>
<email>mpdesouza@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-21T17:17:04+00:00</published>
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By checking if KDIR is a valid directory we can safely skip the tests if
kernel-devel isn't installed (default value of KDIR), or if KDIR
variable passed doesn't exists.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202402191417.XULH88Ct-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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By checking if KDIR is a valid directory we can safely skip the tests if
kernel-devel isn't installed (default value of KDIR), or if KDIR
variable passed doesn't exists.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202402191417.XULH88Ct-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>selftests: livepatch: Add initial .gitignore</title>
<updated>2024-02-28T00:03:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcos Paulo de Souza</name>
<email>mpdesouza@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-21T17:17:03+00:00</published>
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Ignore the binary used to test livepatching a syscall.

Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Ignore the binary used to test livepatching a syscall.

Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selftests/livepatch: fix and refactor new dmesg message code</title>
<updated>2024-01-30T15:55:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Lawrence</name>
<email>joe.lawrence@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-20T15:11:51+00:00</published>
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The livepatching kselftests rely on comparing expected vs. observed
dmesg output.  After each test, new dmesg entries are determined by the
'comm' utility comparing a saved, pre-test copy of dmesg to post-test
dmesg output.

Alexander reports that the 'comm --nocheck-order -13' invocation used by
the tests can be confused when dmesg entry timestamps vary in magnitude
(ie, "[   98.820331]" vs. "[  100.031067]"), in which case, additional
messages are reported as new.  The unexpected entries then spoil the
test results.

Instead of relying on 'comm' or 'diff' to determine new testing dmesg
entries, refactor the code:

  - pre-test  : log a unique canary dmesg entry
  - test      : run tests, log messages
  - post-test : filter dmesg starting from pre-test message

Reported-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/live-patching/ZYAimyPYhxVA9wKg@li-008a6a4c-3549-11b2-a85c-c5cc2836eea2.ibm.com/
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The livepatching kselftests rely on comparing expected vs. observed
dmesg output.  After each test, new dmesg entries are determined by the
'comm' utility comparing a saved, pre-test copy of dmesg to post-test
dmesg output.

Alexander reports that the 'comm --nocheck-order -13' invocation used by
the tests can be confused when dmesg entry timestamps vary in magnitude
(ie, "[   98.820331]" vs. "[  100.031067]"), in which case, additional
messages are reported as new.  The unexpected entries then spoil the
test results.

Instead of relying on 'comm' or 'diff' to determine new testing dmesg
entries, refactor the code:

  - pre-test  : log a unique canary dmesg entry
  - test      : run tests, log messages
  - post-test : filter dmesg starting from pre-test message

Reported-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/live-patching/ZYAimyPYhxVA9wKg@li-008a6a4c-3549-11b2-a85c-c5cc2836eea2.ibm.com/
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selftests: livepatch: Test livepatching a heavily called syscall</title>
<updated>2024-01-22T17:29:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcos Paulo de Souza</name>
<email>mpdesouza@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-12T17:43:52+00:00</published>
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The test proves that a syscall can be livepatched. It is interesting
because syscalls are called a tricky way. Also the process gets
livepatched either when sleeping in the userspace or when entering
or leaving the kernel space.

The livepatch is a bit tricky:
  1. The syscall function name is architecture specific. Also
     ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER must be taken in account.

  2. The syscall must stay working the same way for other processes
     on the system. It is solved by decrementing a counter only
     for PIDs of the test processes. It means that the test processes
     has to call the livepatched syscall at least once.

The test creates one userspace process per online cpu. The processes
are calling getpid in a busy loop. The intention is to create random
locations when the livepatch gets enabled. Nothing is guarantted.
The magic is in the randomness.

Reviewed-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The test proves that a syscall can be livepatched. It is interesting
because syscalls are called a tricky way. Also the process gets
livepatched either when sleeping in the userspace or when entering
or leaving the kernel space.

The livepatch is a bit tricky:
  1. The syscall function name is architecture specific. Also
     ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER must be taken in account.

  2. The syscall must stay working the same way for other processes
     on the system. It is solved by decrementing a counter only
     for PIDs of the test processes. It means that the test processes
     has to call the livepatched syscall at least once.

The test creates one userspace process per online cpu. The processes
are calling getpid in a busy loop. The intention is to create random
locations when the livepatch gets enabled. Nothing is guarantted.
The magic is in the randomness.

Reviewed-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>livepatch: Move tests from lib/livepatch to selftests/livepatch</title>
<updated>2024-01-22T17:29:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcos Paulo de Souza</name>
<email>mpdesouza@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-12T17:43:51+00:00</published>
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The modules are being moved from lib/livepatch to
tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test_modules.

This code moving will allow writing more complex tests, like for example an
userspace C code that will call a livepatched kernel function.

The modules are now built as out-of-tree
modules, but being part of the kernel source means they will be maintained.

Another advantage of the code moving is to be able to easily change,
debug and rebuild the tests by running make on the selftests/livepatch
directory, which is not currently possible since the modules on
lib/livepatch are build and installed using the "modules" target.

The current approach also keeps the ability to execute the tests manually
by executing the scripts inside selftests/livepatch directory, as it's
currently supported. If the modules are modified, they needed to be
rebuilt before running the scripts though.

The modules are built before running the selftests when using the
kselftest invocations:

	make kselftest TARGETS=livepatch
or
	make -C tools/testing/selftests/livepatch run_tests

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.

Now it is possible to only compile the modules by running:

	make -C tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/

This way the test modules and other test program can be built in order
to be packaged if so desired.

As there aren't any modules being built on lib/livepatch, remove the
TEST_LIVEPATCH Kconfig and it's references.

Note: "make gen_tar" packages the pre-built binaries into the tarball.
       It means that it will store the test modules pre-built for
       the kernel running on the build host.

       Note that these modules need not binary compatible with
       the kernel built from the same sources. But the same
       is true for other packaged selftest binaries.

       The entire kernel sources are needed for rebuilding
       the selftests on another system.

Reviewed-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The modules are being moved from lib/livepatch to
tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test_modules.

This code moving will allow writing more complex tests, like for example an
userspace C code that will call a livepatched kernel function.

The modules are now built as out-of-tree
modules, but being part of the kernel source means they will be maintained.

Another advantage of the code moving is to be able to easily change,
debug and rebuild the tests by running make on the selftests/livepatch
directory, which is not currently possible since the modules on
lib/livepatch are build and installed using the "modules" target.

The current approach also keeps the ability to execute the tests manually
by executing the scripts inside selftests/livepatch directory, as it's
currently supported. If the modules are modified, they needed to be
rebuilt before running the scripts though.

The modules are built before running the selftests when using the
kselftest invocations:

	make kselftest TARGETS=livepatch
or
	make -C tools/testing/selftests/livepatch run_tests

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.

Now it is possible to only compile the modules by running:

	make -C tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/

This way the test modules and other test program can be built in order
to be packaged if so desired.

As there aren't any modules being built on lib/livepatch, remove the
TEST_LIVEPATCH Kconfig and it's references.

Note: "make gen_tar" packages the pre-built binaries into the tarball.
       It means that it will store the test modules pre-built for
       the kernel running on the build host.

       Note that these modules need not binary compatible with
       the kernel built from the same sources. But the same
       is true for other packaged selftest binaries.

       The entire kernel sources are needed for rebuilding
       the selftests on another system.

Reviewed-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;mpdesouza@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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