Re: [PATCH v2 kunit-next 3/3] kunit: update documentation to describe debugfs representation

[Brendan Higgins]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:47 AM Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Documentation should describe debugfs layout and semantics.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> index 7cd56a1..b05c843 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> @@ -590,3 +590,22 @@ able to run one test case per invocation.
>
>  .. TODO(brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx): Add an actual example of an architecture
>     dependent KUnit test.
> +
> +KUnit debugfs representation
> +============================
> +When kunit test suites are initialized, they create an associated directory
> +in /sys/kernel/debug/kunit/<test-suite>.  The directory contains two files
> +
> +- results: "cat results" displays results of last test run
> +- run: "cat run" runs the test suite and displays the results
> +
> +Thus to re-run all currently loaded suites and display results, we can do this:
> +
> +```
> +$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kunit/*/run
> +```

This should be in a ".. code-block:: bash", see above in this file for
an example.

> +
> +The debugfs representation is primarily of use when kunit test suites are
> +run in a native environment, either as modules or builtin.  Having a way
> +to display results like this is valuable as otherwise results can be
> +intermixed with other events in dmesg output.
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>