[PATCH v8 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API

[Albert Esteve]

From: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Document API functions for suppressing warning backtraces.

Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Carminati <acarmina@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Albert Esteve <aesteve@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
index ebd06f5ea4550..25724f7e72969 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
@@ -157,6 +157,67 @@ Alternatively, one can take full control over the error message by using
 	if (some_setup_function())
 		KUNIT_FAIL(test, "Failed to setup thing for testing");
 
+Suppressing warning backtraces
+------------------------------
+
+Some unit tests trigger warning backtraces either intentionally or as a side
+effect. Such backtraces are normally undesirable since they distract from
+the actual test and may result in the impression that there is a problem.
+
+Backtraces can be suppressed with **task-scoped suppression**: while
+suppression is active on the current task, the backtrace and stack dump from
+``WARN*()``, ``WARN_ON*()``, and related macros on that task are suppressed.
+Three API forms are available, in order of convenience.
+
+- Scoped suppression is the simplest form. Wrap the code that triggers
+  warnings in a ``kunit_warning_suppress()`` block:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	static void some_test(struct kunit *test)
+	{
+		kunit_warning_suppress(test) {
+			trigger_backtrace();
+			KUNIT_EXPECT_SUPPRESSED_WARNING_COUNT(test, 1);
+		}
+	}
+
+.. note::
+   The warning count must be checked inside the block; the suppression handle
+   is not accessible after the block exits.
+
+- Manual macros are useful when the suppressed region is large enough that
+  extra indentation is undesirable, or when the warning count needs to be
+  checked after suppression ends. ``KUNIT_START_SUPPRESSED_WARNING()`` must
+  appear before ``KUNIT_END_SUPPRESSED_WARNING()`` in the same scope.
+  Limited to one pair per scope.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	static void some_test(struct kunit *test)
+	{
+		KUNIT_START_SUPPRESSED_WARNING(test);
+		trigger_backtrace();
+		KUNIT_END_SUPPRESSED_WARNING(test);
+
+		KUNIT_EXPECT_SUPPRESSED_WARNING_COUNT(test, 1);
+	}
+
+- Direct functions return an explicit handle pointer. Use them when the handle
+  needs to be retained or passed across helper functions:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	static void some_test(struct kunit *test)
+	{
+		struct kunit_suppressed_warning *w;
+
+		w = kunit_start_suppress_warning(test);
+		trigger_backtrace();
+		kunit_end_suppress_warning(test, w);
+
+		KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, kunit_suppressed_warning_count(w), 1);
+	}
 
 Test Suites
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -1211,4 +1272,4 @@ For example:
 		dev_managed_string = devm_kstrdup(fake_device, "Hello, World!");
 
 		// Everything is cleaned up automatically when the test ends.
-	}
\ No newline at end of file
+	}

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