Moving livepatching module building to kselftests
summary
Proposal moves livepatch test modules from lib/livepatch into tools/testing/selftests/livepatch and adds a kselftest target that compiles modules on the test host, drops CONFIG_TEST_LIVEPATCH, and uses insmod instead of modprobe. The V3 patch implements the first of ~15 QA tests (verifies livepatch transitions of the getpid syscall) and runs locally, but faces practical issues: gen_tar packs binaries only, requires kernel headers/VERMAGIC match, and building on target needs a toolchain and handling module signing.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and agenda
- 1:51What are kselftests
- 5:29Current livepatch testing setup
- 8:20kselftests module restrictions
- 10:53Proposal to move tests
- 14:07Challenges with module building
- 22:46Discussion on module location
- 28:29Future work and Q&A
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