Re: [PATCH] kunit: take `kunit_assert` as `const`

[David Gow]

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 3:26 AM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 4:05 PM David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I definitely agree here -- I can't recall any particular plan that
> > would require this to be non-const, and we can always change it back
> > if we really need to.
>
> That is good to know, thanks! Out-of-tree users can always be a surprise... :)
>
> > Very exciting! I assume that's the PR here:
> > https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/pull/757
>
> Indeed! I hope you like it -- we are taking the documentation tests in
> Rust (which are a very lightweight way of writing examples which
> double as tests) and generating KUnit test cases on the fly. For the
> moment it is just for the `kernel` crate, but the idea is to
> generalize it for modules etc.
>
> By the way, since you saw the PR... do you know if KUnit relies (or
> will rely) on "stack-dumping" functions like `longjmp`?

I don't think so -- though there's no fundamental individual tests
couldn't use them if it made sense for them.

KUnit spins off a new kthread per test, and uses
kthread_complete_and_exit() to unwind when an assertion fails. See
lib/kunit/try-catch.c for the actual implementation. The only really
dodgy bit is the test timeout support, which attempts to stop a thread
with kthread_stop(), and IIRC has some problems.

Hope that helps!
-- David