Merging upstream version 6.9.7.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/README b/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/README
index 0942dd5826..d2035dd64a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/README
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/README
@@ -13,23 +13,36 @@ the message buffer for only the duration of each individual test.)
 Config
 ------
 
-Set these config options and their prerequisites:
+Set CONFIG_LIVEPATCH=y option and it's prerequisites.
 
-CONFIG_LIVEPATCH=y
-CONFIG_TEST_LIVEPATCH=m
 
+Building the tests
+------------------
+
+To only build the tests without running them, run:
+
+  % make -C tools/testing/selftests/livepatch
+
+The command above will compile all test modules and test programs, making them
+ready to be packaged if so desired.
 
 Running the tests
 -----------------
 
-Test kernel modules are built as part of lib/ (make modules) and need to
-be installed (make modules_install) as the test scripts will modprobe
-them.
+Test kernel modules are built before running the livepatch selftests.  The
+modules are located under test_modules directory, and are built as out-of-tree
+modules.  This is specially useful since the same sources can be built and
+tested on systems with different kABI, ensuring they the tests are backwards
+compatible.  The modules will be loaded by the test scripts using insmod.
 
 To run the livepatch selftests, from the top of the kernel source tree:
 
   % make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests
 
+or
+
+  % make kselftest TARGETS=livepatch
+
 
 Adding tests
 ------------