Search notes:

tools/

$ make help
Possible targets:

  acpi                   - ACPI tools
  bpf                    - misc BPF tools
  cgroup                 - cgroup tools
  counter                - counter tools
  cpupower               - a tool for all things x86 CPU power
  debugging              - tools for debugging
  firewire               - the userspace part of nosy, an IEEE-1394 traffic sniffer
  firmware               - Firmware tools
  freefall               - laptop accelerometer program for disk protection
  gpio                   - GPIO tools
  hv                     - tools used when in Hyper-V clients
  iio                    - IIO tools
  intel-speed-select     - Intel Speed Select tool
  kvm_stat               - top-like utility for displaying kvm statistics
  leds                   - LEDs  tools
  nolibc                 - nolibc headers testing and installation
  objtool                - an ELF object analysis tool
  pci                    - PCI tools
  perf                   - Linux performance measurement and analysis tool
  selftests              - various kernel selftests
  bootconfig             - boot config tool
  spi                    - spi tools
  tmon                   - thermal monitoring and tuning tool
  thermometer            - temperature capture tool
  thermal-engine         - thermal monitoring tool
  thermal                - thermal library
  tracing                - misc tracing tools
  turbostat              - Intel CPU idle stats and freq reporting tool
  usb                    - USB testing tools
  virtio                 - vhost test module
  mm                     - misc mm tools
  wmi                   - WMI interface examples
  x86_energy_perf_policy - Intel energy policy tool

You can do:
 $ make -C tools/ <tool>_install

  from the kernel command line to build and install one of
  the tools above

  $ make tools/all

  builds all tools.

  $ make tools/install

  installs all tools.

Cleaning targets:

  all of the above with the "_clean" string appended cleans
    the respective build directory.
  clean: a summary clean target to clean _all_ folders

Subdirectories

accounting
arch
bootconfig
bpf
build
certs
cgroup
counter
debugging
edid
firewire
firmware
gpio
hv
iio
include
io_uring
kvm
laptop
leds
lib
Makefile
memory-model
mm
net
objtool
pci
pcmcia
perf
power
rcu
scripts
spi
testing
thermal
time
tracing
usb
verification
virtio
wmi
workqueue

See also

Linux kernel source tree

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