[PATCH v3 4/4] Documentation: kunit: Add usage notes for kunit_add_action()

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Add some basic documentation for kunit_add_action() and related
deferred action functions.

Reviewed-by: Rae Moar <rmoar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes since v2:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20230518083849.2631178-4-davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx/
- Fix a couple of typos (Thanks Bagas, Rae)
- Add Rae's Reviewed-by.

This patch is new in v2.

---
 Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
index 46957d1cbcbb..c27e1646ecd9 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
@@ -615,6 +615,57 @@ For example:
 		KUNIT_ASSERT_STREQ(test, buffer, "");
 	}
 
+Registering Cleanup Actions
+---------------------------
+
+If you need to perform some cleanup beyond simple use of ``kunit_kzalloc``,
+you can register a custom "deferred action", which is a cleanup function
+run when the test exits (whether cleanly, or via a failed assertion).
+
+Actions are simple functions with no return value, and a single ``void*``
+context argument, and fulfill the same role as "cleanup" functions in Python
+and Go tests, "defer" statements in languages which support them, and
+(in some cases) destructors in RAII languages.
+
+These are very useful for unregistering things from global lists, closing
+files or other resources, or freeing resources.
+
+For example:
+
+.. code-block:: C
+
+	static void cleanup_device(void *ctx)
+	{
+		struct device *dev = (struct device *)ctx;
+
+		device_unregister(dev);
+	}
+
+	void example_device_test(struct kunit *test)
+	{
+		struct my_device dev;
+
+		device_register(&dev);
+
+		kunit_add_action(test, &cleanup_device, &dev);
+	}
+
+Note that, for functions like device_unregister which only accept a single
+pointer-sized argument, it's possible to directly cast that function to
+a ``kunit_action_t`` rather than writing a wrapper function, for example:
+
+.. code-block:: C
+
+	kunit_add_action(test, (kunit_action_t *)&device_unregister, &dev);
+
+``kunit_add_action`` can fail if, for example, the system is out of memory.
+You can use ``kunit_add_action_or_reset`` instead which runs the action
+immediately if it cannot be deferred.
+
+If you need more control over when the cleanup function is called, you
+can trigger it early using ``kunit_release_action``, or cancel it entirely
+with ``kunit_remove_action``.
+
 
 Testing Static Functions
 ------------------------
-- 
2.41.0.rc0.172.g3f132b7071-goog




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