Re: [PATCH 1/2] kunit: Add ability to skip entire test suites
From: Vaibhav Jain
Date: Mon Jun 08 2026 - 05:13:11 EST
Hi David,
Thanks for looking into this patch. My responses inline below:
David Gow <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
<snip>
>
> Thanks — this is great! There are a few cases it's not handling
> properly, though, particularly with respect to the debugfs support.
>
> I think we need to:
> - Reset suite->status to KUNIT_SUCCESS in kunit_init_suite(), so that a
> suite which is re-run via debugfs isn't automatically skipped again.
> - Fix the result handling in debugfs to handle skipped suites.
Agree, and I have addressed this in v2 of the patch using the
code-snippets you have shared.
> - (Optional) Maybe we could get rid of kunit_suite::suite_init_err now
> that there's a specific status value. That'd have to be done carefully
> to preserve all of the semantics, though.
Yes fully agree that kunit_suite::suite_init_err will be redundant after
introduction of kunit_suite::status. I have started looking into this
and will post a different patch{series} for this.
>
> Here's a quick (and slightly hacky) patch to fix the first couple of issues:
> ---
> diff --git a/lib/kunit/debugfs.c b/lib/kunit/debugfs.c
> index 9c326f1837bd..23d34bfdba95 100644
> --- a/lib/kunit/debugfs.c
> +++ b/lib/kunit/debugfs.c
> @@ -58,6 +58,22 @@ static void debugfs_print_result(struct seq_file
> *seq, struct string_stream *log
> spin_unlock(&log->lock);
> }
>
> +/* Print the result line for a suite. */
> +static void debugfs_print_ok_not_ok(struct seq_file *seq,
> + enum kunit_status status,
> + size_t test_number,
> + const char *description,
> + const char *directive)
> +{
> + const char *directive_header = (status == KUNIT_SKIPPED) ? " # SKIP "
> : "";
> + const char *directive_body = (status == KUNIT_SKIPPED) ? directive : "";
> +
> + seq_printf(seq, "%s %zd %s%s%s\n",
> + kunit_status_to_ok_not_ok(status),
> + test_number, description, directive_header,
> + directive_body);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * /sys/kernel/debug/kunit/<testsuite>/results shows all results for
> testsuite.
> */
> @@ -77,17 +93,17 @@ static int debugfs_print_results(struct seq_file
> *seq, void *v)
> seq_puts(seq, "1..1\n");
>
> /* Print suite header because it is not stored in the test logs. */
> - seq_puts(seq, KUNIT_SUBTEST_INDENT "KTAP version 1\n");
> - seq_printf(seq, KUNIT_SUBTEST_INDENT "# Subtest: %s\n", suite->name);
> - seq_printf(seq, KUNIT_SUBTEST_INDENT "1..%zd\n",
> kunit_suite_num_test_cases(suite));
> -
> - kunit_suite_for_each_test_case(suite, test_case)
> - debugfs_print_result(seq, test_case->log);
> + if (suite->status != KUNIT_SKIPPED) {
> + seq_puts(seq, KUNIT_SUBTEST_INDENT "KTAP version 1\n");
> + seq_printf(seq, KUNIT_SUBTEST_INDENT "# Subtest: %s\n", suite->name);
> + seq_printf(seq, KUNIT_SUBTEST_INDENT "1..%zd\n",
> kunit_suite_num_test_cases(suite));
>
> + kunit_suite_for_each_test_case(suite, test_case)
> + debugfs_print_result(seq, test_case->log);
> + }
> debugfs_print_result(seq, suite->log);
>
> - seq_printf(seq, "%s %d %s\n",
> - kunit_status_to_ok_not_ok(success), 1, suite->name);
> + debugfs_print_ok_not_ok(seq, success, 1, suite->name,
> suite->status_comment);
> return 0;
> }
Thanks, have modified these proposed changes a bit for v2
>
> diff --git a/lib/kunit/test.c b/lib/kunit/test.c
> index c0ae45a22b2c..2ff145796450 100644
> --- a/lib/kunit/test.c
> +++ b/lib/kunit/test.c
> @@ -798,9 +798,6 @@ int kunit_run_tests(struct kunit_suite *suite)
> /* Taint the kernel so we know we've run tests. */
> add_taint(TAINT_TEST, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
>
> - if (suite->status == KUNIT_SKIPPED)
> - goto suite_end;
> -
> if (suite->suite_init) {
> suite->suite_init_err = suite->suite_init(suite);
> if (suite->suite_init_err) {
> @@ -836,6 +833,7 @@ static void kunit_init_suite(struct kunit_suite *suite)
> kunit_debugfs_create_suite(suite);
> suite->status_comment[0] = '\0';
> suite->suite_init_err = 0;
> + suite->status = KUNIT_SUCCESS;
Thanks, taken this change for v2.
>
> if (suite->log)
> string_stream_clear(suite->log);
> ---
>
>
>> include/kunit/test.h | 1 +
>> lib/kunit/test.c | 11 +++++++++++
>> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/kunit/test.h b/include/kunit/test.h
>> index ce0573e196ce..395221d623f7 100644
>> --- a/include/kunit/test.h
>> +++ b/include/kunit/test.h
>> @@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ struct kunit_suite {
>> struct string_stream *log;
>> int suite_init_err;
>> bool is_init;
>> + enum kunit_status status;
>> };
>>
>> /* Stores an array of suites, end points one past the end */
>> diff --git a/lib/kunit/test.c b/lib/kunit/test.c
>> index 99773e000e1b..989acc770265 100644
>> --- a/lib/kunit/test.c
>> +++ b/lib/kunit/test.c
>> @@ -214,6 +214,9 @@ enum kunit_status kunit_suite_has_succeeded(struct kunit_suite *suite)
>> const struct kunit_case *test_case;
>> enum kunit_status status = KUNIT_SKIPPED;
>>
>> + if (suite->status == KUNIT_SKIPPED)
>> + return KUNIT_SKIPPED;
>> +
>> if (suite->suite_init_err)
>> return KUNIT_FAILURE;
>>
>> @@ -795,12 +798,20 @@ int kunit_run_tests(struct kunit_suite *suite)
>> /* Taint the kernel so we know we've run tests. */
>> add_taint(TAINT_TEST, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
>>
>> + if (suite->status == KUNIT_SKIPPED)
>> + goto suite_end;
>> +
>
> Do we want this? If a test is run more than once, we probably want to
> re-run suite_init so that we can tell if we should still skip it.
This condition should prevent a 'kunit_suite' from running if its marked
skipped before suite_init() is called.
>
> While I don't think it's likely that a test which was previously skipped
> will suddenly become available, it's not impossible with, e.g., CPU hotplug.
Agree, I have updated kunit_init_suite() to set 'kunit_suite.status' ==
KUNIT_SUCCESS. This should force the suite_init() to be calledback again
when the suite is re-run.
--
Cheers
~ Vaibhav