Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: kunit: add tips for running KUnit

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On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:45 AM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is long overdue.
>
> There are several things that aren't nailed down (in-tree
> .kunitconfig's), or partially broken (GCOV on UML), but having them
> documented, warts and all, is better than having nothing.
>
> This covers a bunch of the more recent features
> * kunit_filter_glob
> * kunit.py run --kunitconfig
> * slightly more detail on building tests as modules
> * CONFIG_KUNIT_DEBUGFS
>
> By my count, the only headline features now not mentioned are the KASAN
> integration and KernelCI json output support (kunit.py run --json).
>
> And then it also discusses how to get code coverage reports under UML
> and non-UML since this is a question people have repeatedly asked.
>
> Non-UML coverage collection is no different from normal, but we should
> probably explicitly call this out.
>
> As for UML, I was able to get it working again with two small hacks.*
> E.g. with CONFIG_KUNIT=y && CONFIG_KUNIT_ALL_TESTS=y
>   Overall coverage rate:
>     lines......: 15.1% (18294 of 120776 lines)
>     functions..: 16.8% (1860 of 11050 functions)
>
> Note: this doesn't document --alltests since this is not stable yet.
> Hopefully being run more frequently as part of KernelCI will help...
>
> *Using gcc/gcov-6 and not using uml_abort() in os_dump_core().
> I've documented these hacks in "Notes" but left TODOs for
> brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx who tracked down the runtime issue in GCC.
> To be clear: these are not issues specific to KUnit, but rather to UML.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

I'm very happy with this now: all my issues with the previous versions
are addressed. I'm particularly excited to have code coverage
documented somewhere.

Assuming Brendan's happy with the TODOs being there, I think this is
ready to go.

I also built this with Sphinx and gave it a quick look, and it all
looks good there as well.

Therefore, this is:

Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
-- David



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