Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: kunit: Add CLI args for kunit_tool

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On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 7:54 PM David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 4:26 PM Sadiya Kazi <sadiyakazi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> >  Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/run_wrapper.rst | 60 ++++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/run_wrapper.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/run_wrapper.rst
> > index 5e560f2c5fca..600af7ac5f88 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/run_wrapper.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/run_wrapper.rst

[...]

> > @@ -257,3 +257,61 @@ command line arguments:
> >              added or modified. Instead, enable all tests
> >              which have satisfied dependencies by adding
> >              ``CONFIG_KUNIT_ALL_TESTS=y`` to your ``.kunitconfig``.
> > +
> > +- ``--kunitconfig``: Specifies the path or the directory of the ``.kunitconfig``
> > +  file. For example:
> > +
> > +  - ``lib/kunit/.kunitconfig`` can be the path of the file.
> > +
> > +  - ``lib/kunit`` can be the directory in which the file is located.
> > +
> > +  This file is used to build and run with a predefined set of tests
> > +  and their dependencies. For example, to run tests for a given subsystem.
> > +
> > +- ``--kconfig_add``: Specifies additional configuration options to be
> > +  appended to the ``.kunitconfig`` file.
> > +  For example, ``./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --kconfig_add CONFIG_KASAN=y``.
> > +
>
> Just FYI, this example won't work as-is until KASAN for UML is merged.
> It's already sitting in uml/next, so this shouldn't be a problem:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux.git/commit/?h=next&id=5b301409e8bc5d7fad2ee138be44c5c529dd0874
>
> But if you want to try it on 5.19 or the current kunit branch, you'll
> need to add, e.g., --arch=x86_64
>
> > +- ``--arch``: Runs tests on the specified architecture. The architecture
> > +  specified must match the Kbuild ARCH environment variable.
>
> I'm not quite sold on 'must match the Kbuild ARCH environment
> variable'. That seems to imply to me that you need to set ARCH= _and_
> use --arch. Instead, --arch itself sets ARCH=, so the values use the
> same names.

Agreed, I was just about to reply with a comment to the same effect.

> > +  For example, i386, x86_64, arm, um, etc. Non-UML architectures run on QEMU.
> > +  Default is `um`.
> > +
> > +- ``--cross_compile``: Specifies the Kbuild toolchain. It passes the
> > +  same argument as passed to the ``CROSS_COMPILE`` variable used by
> > +  Kbuild. This will be the prefix for the toolchain
> > +  binaries such as GCC. For example:
> > +
> > +  - ``sparc64-linux-gnu-`` if we have the sparc toolchain installed on
> > +    our system.
> > +
> > +  - ``$HOME/toolchains/microblaze/gcc-9.2.0-nolibc/microblaze-linux/bin/microblaze-linux``
> > +    if we have downloaded the microblaze toolchain from the 0-day
> > +    website to a specified path in our home directory called toolchains.
> > +
> > +- ``--qemu_config``: Specifies the path to a file containing a
> > +  custom qemu architecture definition. This should be a python file
> > +  containing a `QemuArchParams` object.
> > +
> > +- ``--qemu_args``: Specifies additional QEMU arguments, for example, "-smp 8".
> > +
> > +- ``--jobs``: Specifies the number of jobs (commands) to run simultaneously.4
> > +  By default, this is set to the number of cores on your system.
> > +
> > +- ``--timeout``: Specifies the maximum number of seconds allowed for all tests to run.
> > +  This does not include the time taken to build the tests.
> > +
> > +- ``--kernel_args``: Specifies additional kernel command-line arguments. Might be repeated.
>
> Nit: maybe "can be repeated"? As it's the reader of this documentation
> who will likely be doing the repeating. Or "may be repeated"?

+1

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