Hey Knut and Shuah, Following up on our offline discussion on Wednesday night: We decided that it would make sense for Knut to try to implement Hybrid Testing (testing that crosses the kernel userspace boundary) that he introduced here[1] on top of the existing KUnit infrastructure. We discussed several possible things in the kernel that Knut could test with the new Hybrid Testing feature as an initial example. Those were (in reverse order of expected difficulty): 1. RDS (Reliable Datagram Sockets) - We decided that, although this was one of the more complicated subsystems to work with, it was probably the best candidate for Knut to start with because it was in desperate need of better testing, much of the testing would require crossing the kernel userspace boundary to be effective, and Knut has access to RDS (since he works at Oracle). 2. KMOD - Probably much simpler than RDS, and the maintainer, Luis Chamberlain (CC'ed) would like to see better testing here, but probably still not as good as RDS because it is in less dire need of testing, collaboration on this would be more difficult, and Luis is currently on an extended vacation. Luis and I had already been discussing testing KMOD here[2]. 3. IP over USB - Least desirable option, but still possible. More complicated than KMOD, and not as easy to collaborate on as RDS. I don't really think we discussed how this would work. I remember that I mentioned that it would be easier if I sent out a patch that centralizes where KUnit tests are dispatched from in the kernel; I will try to get an RFC for that out, probably sometime next week. That should provide a pretty straightforward place for Knut to move his work on top of. The next question is what the userspace component of this should look like. To me it seems like we should probably have the kselftest test runner manage when the test gets run, and collecting and reporting the result of the test, but I think Knut has thought more about this than I, and Shuah is the kselftest maintainer, so I am guessing this will probably mostly be a discussion between the two of you. So I think we have a couple of TODOs between us: Brendan: - Need to send out patch that provides a single place where all tests are dispatched from. Knut: - Start splitting out the hybrid test stuff from the rest of the RFC you sent previously. Knut and Shuah: - Start figuring out what the userspace component of this will look like. Cheers! [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/524b4e062500c6a240d4d7c0e1d0a2996800cc0a.1565676440.git-series.knut.omang@xxxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kunit-dev/CdIytJtii00
