Re: [RFC v3 06/19] arch: um: enable running kunit from User Mode Linux

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Nov 30 2018 - 09:05:49 EST


On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 9:37 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 03:26:03PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 1:37 PM Brendan Higgins
> > <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Make minimum number of changes outside of the KUnit directories for
> > > KUnit to build and run using UML.
> >
> > There's nothing in this patch limiting this to UML.
>
> Not that one, but the abort thing segv thing is, eventually.
> To support other architectures we'd need to make a wrapper to that
> hack which Brendan added, and then allow each os to implement
> its own call, and add an asm-generic helper.

I've not looked into why this is needed, but can't you make the abort
support optional and arches can select it when they support it. At
least before, the DT unittests didn't need this to run and shouldn't
depend on it after converting to kunit.

Rob