Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] kunit: Make 'list' action available to kunit test modules

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:10:24 +0200
Janusz Krzysztofik <janusz.krzysztofik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> Results from kunit tests reported via dmesg may be interleaved with other
> kernel messages.  When parsing dmesg for modular kunit results in real
> time, external tools, e.g., Intel GPU tools (IGT), may want to insert
> their own test name markers into dmesg at the start of each test, before
> any kernel message related to that test appears there, so existing upper
> level test result parsers have no doubt which test to blame for a specific
> kernel message.  Unfortunately, kunit reports names of tests only at their
> completion (with the exeption of a not standarized "# Subtest: <name>"
> header above a test plan of each test suite or parametrized test).
> 
> External tools could be able to insert their own "start of the test"
> markers with test names included if they new those names in advance.
> Test names could be learned from a list if provided by a kunit test
> module.
> 
> There exists a feature of listing kunit tests without actually executing
> them, but it is now limited to configurations with the kunit module built
> in and covers only built-in tests, already available at boot time.
> Moreover, switching from list to normal mode requires reboot.  If that
> feature was also available when kunit is built as a module, userspace
> could load the module with action=list parameter, load some kunit test
> modules they are interested in and learn about the list of tests provided
> by those modules, then unload them, reload the kunit module in normal mode
> and execute the tests with their lists already known.
> 
> Extend kunit module notifier initialization callback with a processing
> path for only listing the tests provided by a module if the kunit action
> parameter is set to "list".  For ease of use, submit the list in the
> format of a standard KTAP report, with SKIP result from each test case,
> giving "list mode" as the reason for skipping.  For each test suite
> provided by a kunit test module, make such list of its test cases also
> available via kunit debugfs for the lifetime of the module.  For user
> convenience, make the kunit.action parameter visible in sysfs.

It sounds interesting to have a modprobe option to just list the
tests without excecuting.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Janusz Krzysztofik <janusz.krzysztofik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/kunit/test.h |  1 +
>  lib/kunit/executor.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
>  lib/kunit/test.c     | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/kunit/test.h b/include/kunit/test.h
> index 23120d50499ef..6d693f21a4833 100644
> --- a/include/kunit/test.h
> +++ b/include/kunit/test.h
> @@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ static inline void kunit_set_failure(struct kunit *test)
>  }
>  
>  bool kunit_enabled(void);
> +const char *kunit_action(void);
>  
>  void kunit_init_test(struct kunit *test, const char *name, char *log);
>  
> diff --git a/lib/kunit/executor.c b/lib/kunit/executor.c
> index 74982b83707ca..d1c0616569dfd 100644
> --- a/lib/kunit/executor.c
> +++ b/lib/kunit/executor.c
> @@ -12,19 +12,26 @@
>  extern struct kunit_suite * const __kunit_suites_start[];
>  extern struct kunit_suite * const __kunit_suites_end[];
>  
> +static char *action_param;
> +
> +module_param_named(action, action_param, charp, 0400);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(action,
> +		 "Changes KUnit executor behavior, valid values are:\n"
> +		 "<none>: run the tests like normal\n"
> +		 "'list' to list test names instead of running them.\n");

Help message sounded confusing. What about adding a boolean modprobe
parameter, like "list_tests"?

> +
> +const char *kunit_action(void)
> +{
> +	return action_param;
> +}
> +
>  #if IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_KUNIT)
>  
>  static char *filter_glob_param;
> -static char *action_param;
>  
>  module_param_named(filter_glob, filter_glob_param, charp, 0);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(filter_glob,
>  		"Filter which KUnit test suites/tests run at boot-time, e.g. list* or list*.*del_test");
> -module_param_named(action, action_param, charp, 0);
> -MODULE_PARM_DESC(action,
> -		 "Changes KUnit executor behavior, valid values are:\n"
> -		 "<none>: run the tests like normal\n"
> -		 "'list' to list test names instead of running them.\n");
>  
>  /* glob_match() needs NULL terminated strings, so we need a copy of filter_glob_param. */
>  struct kunit_test_filter {
> diff --git a/lib/kunit/test.c b/lib/kunit/test.c
> index a29ca1acc4d81..413d9fd364a8d 100644
> --- a/lib/kunit/test.c
> +++ b/lib/kunit/test.c
> @@ -674,6 +674,27 @@ int kunit_run_tests(struct kunit_suite *suite)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kunit_run_tests);
>  
> +static void kunit_list_suite(struct kunit_suite *suite)
> +{
> +	struct kunit_case *test_case;
> +
> +	kunit_print_suite_start(suite);
> +
> +	kunit_suite_for_each_test_case(suite, test_case) {
> +		struct kunit test = { .param_value = NULL, .param_index = 0 };
> +
> +		kunit_init_test(&test, test_case->name, test_case->log);
> +
> +		kunit_print_ok_not_ok(&test, true, KUNIT_SKIPPED,
> +				      kunit_test_case_num(suite, test_case),
> +				      test_case->name, "list mode");
> +	}
> +
> +	kunit_print_ok_not_ok((void *)suite, false, KUNIT_SKIPPED,
> +			      kunit_suite_counter++,
> +			      suite->name, "list mode");
> +}
> +
>  static void kunit_init_suite(struct kunit_suite *suite)
>  {
>  	kunit_debugfs_create_suite(suite);
> @@ -688,6 +709,7 @@ bool kunit_enabled(void)
>  
>  int __kunit_test_suites_init(struct kunit_suite * const * const suites, int num_suites)
>  {
> +	const char *action = kunit_action();
>  	unsigned int i;
>  
>  	if (!kunit_enabled() && num_suites > 0) {
> @@ -699,7 +721,13 @@ int __kunit_test_suites_init(struct kunit_suite * const * const suites, int num_
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < num_suites; i++) {
>  		kunit_init_suite(suites[i]);
> -		kunit_run_tests(suites[i]);
> +
> +		if (!action)
> +			kunit_run_tests(suites[i]);
> +		else if (!strcmp(action, "list"))
> +			kunit_list_suite(suites[i]);
> +		else
> +			pr_err("kunit: unknown action '%s'\n", action);
>  	}
>  
>  	static_branch_dec(&kunit_running);

The remaining code LGTM.


Thanks,
Mauro