Re: [PATCH v4 linux-kselftest-test 3/6] kunit: allow kunit tests to be loaded as a module

[Brendan Higgins]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 2:16 AM Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As tests are added to kunit, it will become less feasible to execute
> all built tests together.  By supporting modular tests we provide
> a simple way to do selective execution on a running system; specifying
>
> CONFIG_KUNIT=y
> CONFIG_KUNIT_EXAMPLE_TEST=m
>
> ...means we can simply "insmod example-test.ko" to run the tests.
>
> To achieve this we need to do the following:
>
> o export the required symbols in kunit
> o string-stream tests utilize non-exported symbols so for now we skip
>   building them when CONFIG_KUNIT_TEST=m.
> o support a new way of declaring test suites.  Because a module cannot
>   do multiple late_initcall()s, we provide a kunit_test_suites() macro
>   to declare multiple suites within the same module at once.
> o some test module names would have been too general ("test-test"
>   and "example-test" for kunit tests, "inode-test" for ext4 tests);
>   rename these as appropriate ("kunit-test", "kunit-example-test"
>   and "ext4-inode-test" respectively).

Hmm...should we maybe apply this naming scheme to all the tests then?
I think Kees might have suggested this. I am actually not sure whether
or not we should and would like to get other people's input.

It is a valid point that test-test or example-test are too general of
names for modules, but if this is the case, I think that inode-test is
probably too general as well. But if we are going that far, maybe we
should rename everything *-kunit-test.c.

> Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Knut Omang <knut.omang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/Kconfig                |   2 +-
>  fs/ext4/Makefile               |   5 +
>  fs/ext4/inode-test.c           |   4 +-
>  include/kunit/test.h           |  35 +++--
>  kernel/sysctl-test.c           |   4 +-
>  lib/Kconfig.debug              |   4 +-
>  lib/kunit/Kconfig              |   4 +-
>  lib/kunit/Makefile             |  10 +-
>  lib/kunit/assert.c             |   8 +
>  lib/kunit/example-test.c       |  88 -----------
>  lib/kunit/kunit-example-test.c |  90 +++++++++++
>  lib/kunit/kunit-test.c         | 334 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/kunit/string-stream-test.c |   2 +-
>  lib/kunit/test-test.c          | 333 ----------------------------------------
>  lib/kunit/test.c               |   8 +
>  lib/kunit/try-catch.c          |   2 +
>  lib/list-test.c                |   4 +-
>  17 files changed, 494 insertions(+), 443 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 lib/kunit/example-test.c
>  create mode 100644 lib/kunit/kunit-example-test.c
>  create mode 100644 lib/kunit/kunit-test.c
>  delete mode 100644 lib/kunit/test-test.c