Re: [PATCH linux-kselftest/test v2] lib/list-test: add a test for the 'list' doubly linked list

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:56:31 -0700 David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add a KUnit test for the kernel doubly linked list implementation in
> include/linux/list.h
> 
> Each test case (list_test_x) is focused on testing the behaviour of the
> list function/macro 'x'. None of the tests pass invalid lists to these
> macros, and so should behave identically with DEBUG_LIST enabled and
> disabled.
> 
> Note that, at present, it only tests the list_ types (not the
> singly-linked hlist_), and does not yet test all of the
> list_for_each_entry* macros (and some related things like
> list_prepare_entry).

<looks at kunit>

Given that everything runs at late_initcall time, shouldn't everything
be __init, __initdata etc so all the code and data doesn't hang around
for ever?