linux/Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst
David Gow c797997a24 Documentation: dev-tools: Add Testing Overview
The kernel now has a number of testing and debugging tools, and we've
seen a bit of confusion about what the differences between them are.

Add a basic documentation outlining the testing tools, when to use each,
and how they interact.

This is a pretty quick overview rather than the idealised "kernel
testing guide" that'd probably be optimal, but given the number of times
questions like "When do you use KUnit and when do you use Kselftest?"
are being asked, it seemed worth at least having something. Hopefully
this can form the basis for more detailed documentation later.

Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210415054036.581117-1-davidgow@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-04-15 14:53:02 -06:00

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Development tools for the kernel
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This document is a collection of documents about development tools that can
be used to work on the kernel. For now, the documents have been pulled
together without any significant effort to integrate them into a coherent
whole; patches welcome!
A brief overview of testing-specific tools can be found in
Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst
.. class:: toc-title
Table of contents
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
testing-overview
checkpatch
coccinelle
sparse
kcov
gcov
kasan
ubsan
kmemleak
kcsan
kfence
gdb-kernel-debugging
kgdb
kselftest
kunit/index
.. only:: subproject and html
Indices
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* :ref:`genindex`