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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+
+=========================================
+Automated testing of the DRM subsystem
+=========================================
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+Making sure that changes to the core or drivers don't introduce regressions can
+be very time-consuming when lots of different hardware configurations need to
+be tested. Moreover, it isn't practical for each person interested in this
+testing to have to acquire and maintain what can be a considerable amount of
+hardware.
+
+Also, it is desirable for developers to check for regressions in their code by
+themselves, instead of relying on the maintainers to find them and then
+reporting back.
+
+There are facilities in gitlab.freedesktop.org to automatically test Mesa that
+can be used as well for testing the DRM subsystem. This document explains how
+people interested in testing it can use this shared infrastructure to save
+quite some time and effort.
+
+
+Relevant files
+==============
+
+drivers/gpu/drm/ci/gitlab-ci.yml
+--------------------------------
+
+This is the root configuration file for GitLab CI. Among other less interesting
+bits, it specifies the specific version of the scripts to be used. There are
+some variables that can be modified to change the behavior of the pipeline:
+
+DRM_CI_PROJECT_PATH
+    Repository that contains the Mesa software infrastructure for CI
+
+DRM_CI_COMMIT_SHA
+    A particular revision to use from that repository
+
+UPSTREAM_REPO
+    URL to git repository containing the target branch
+
+TARGET_BRANCH
+    Branch to which this branch is to be merged into
+
+IGT_VERSION
+    Revision of igt-gpu-tools being used, from
+    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/igt-gpu-tools
+
+drivers/gpu/drm/ci/testlist.txt
+-------------------------------
+
+IGT tests to be run on all drivers (unless mentioned in a driver's \*-skips.txt
+file, see below).
+
+drivers/gpu/drm/ci/${DRIVER_NAME}-${HW_REVISION}-fails.txt
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+Lists the known failures for a given driver on a specific hardware revision.
+
+drivers/gpu/drm/ci/${DRIVER_NAME}-${HW_REVISION}-flakes.txt
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+Lists the tests that for a given driver on a specific hardware revision are
+known to behave unreliably. These tests won't cause a job to fail regardless of
+the result. They will still be run.
+
+drivers/gpu/drm/ci/${DRIVER_NAME}-${HW_REVISION}-skips.txt
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+Lists the tests that won't be run for a given driver on a specific hardware
+revision. These are usually tests that interfere with the running of the test
+list due to hanging the machine, causing OOM, taking too long, etc.
+
+
+How to enable automated testing on your tree
+============================================
+
+1. Create a Linux tree in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ if you don't have one
+yet
+
+2. In your kernel repo's configuration (eg.
+https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/janedoe/linux/-/settings/ci_cd), change the
+CI/CD configuration file from .gitlab-ci.yml to
+drivers/gpu/drm/ci/gitlab-ci.yml.
+
+3. Next time you push to this repository, you will see a CI pipeline being
+created (eg. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/janedoe/linux/-/pipelines)
+
+4. The various jobs will be run and when the pipeline is finished, all jobs
+should be green unless a regression has been found.
+
+
+How to update test expectations
+===============================
+
+If your changes to the code fix any tests, you will have to remove one or more
+lines from one or more of the files in
+drivers/gpu/drm/ci/${DRIVER_NAME}_*_fails.txt, for each of the test platforms
+affected by the change.
+
+
+How to expand coverage
+======================
+
+If your code changes make it possible to run more tests (by solving reliability
+issues, for example), you can remove tests from the flakes and/or skips lists,
+and then the expected results if there are any known failures.
+
+If there is a need for updating the version of IGT being used (maybe you have
+added more tests to it), update the IGT_VERSION variable at the top of the
+gitlab-ci.yml file.
+
+
+How to test your changes to the scripts
+=======================================
+
+For testing changes to the scripts in the drm-ci repo, change the
+DRM_CI_PROJECT_PATH and DRM_CI_COMMIT_SHA variables in
+drivers/gpu/drm/ci/gitlab-ci.yml to match your fork of the project (eg.
+janedoe/drm-ci). This fork needs to be in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/.
+
+
+How to incorporate external fixes in your testing
+=================================================
+
+Often, regressions in other trees will prevent testing changes local to the
+tree under test. These fixes will be automatically merged in during the build
+jobs from a branch in the target tree that is named as
+${TARGET_BRANCH}-external-fixes.
+
+If the pipeline is not in a merge request and a branch with the same name
+exists in the local tree, commits from that branch will be merged in as well.
+
+
+How to deal with automated testing labs that may be down
+========================================================
+
+If a hardware farm is down and thus causing pipelines to fail that would
+otherwise pass, one can disable all jobs that would be submitted to that farm
+by editing the file at
+https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gfx-ci/lab-status/-/blob/main/lab-status.yml.
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/index.rst b/Documentation/gpu/index.rst
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@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ GPU Driver Developer's Guide
    backlight
    vga-switcheroo
    vgaarbiter
+   automated_testing
    todo
    rfc/index