On 1/30/20 5:08 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote: > ## TL;DR > > This patchset adds a centralized executor to dispatch tests rather than > relying on late_initcall to schedule each test suite separately along > with a couple of new features that depend on it. And the "couple of new features" are .... ? > > ## What am I trying to do? > > Conceptually, I am trying to provide a mechanism by which test suites > can be grouped together so that they can be reasoned about collectively. > The last two of three patches in this series add features which depend > on this: > > PATCH 5/7 Prints out a test plan right before KUnit tests are run[1]; > this is valuable because it makes it possible for a test > harness to detect whether the number of tests run matches the > number of tests expected to be run, ensuring that no tests > silently failed. > > PATCH 6/7 Add a new kernel command-line option which allows the user to > specify that the kernel poweroff, halt, or reboot after > completing all KUnit tests; this is very handy for running > KUnit tests on UML or a VM so that the UML/VM process exits > cleanly immediately after running all tests without needing a > special initramfs. > > In addition, by dispatching tests from a single location, we can > guarantee that all KUnit tests run after late_init is complete, which That the tests will run after late init (and are guaranteed to do such) needs to be added to the documentation. -Frank > was a concern during the initial KUnit patchset review (this has not > been a problem in practice, but resolving with certainty is nevertheless > desirable). > > Other use cases for this exist, but the above features should provide an > idea of the value that this could provide. > > Alan Maguire (1): > kunit: test: create a single centralized executor for all tests > > Brendan Higgins (5): > vmlinux.lds.h: add linker section for KUnit test suites > arch: um: add linker section for KUnit test suites > init: main: add KUnit to kernel init > kunit: test: add test plan to KUnit TAP format > Documentation: Add kunit_shutdown to kernel-parameters.txt > > David Gow (1): > kunit: Add 'kunit_shutdown' option > > .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++ > arch/um/include/asm/common.lds.S | 4 + > include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 8 ++ > include/kunit/test.h | 82 ++++++++++++------- > init/main.c | 4 + > lib/kunit/Makefile | 3 +- > lib/kunit/executor.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++ > lib/kunit/test.c | 11 --- > tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py | 2 +- > tools/testing/kunit/kunit_parser.py | 76 ++++++++++++++--- > .../test_is_test_passed-all_passed.log | 1 + > .../test_data/test_is_test_passed-crash.log | 1 + > .../test_data/test_is_test_passed-failure.log | 1 + > 13 files changed, 217 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 lib/kunit/executor.c >
