[PATCH v2 0/3] rust: doctest: unify with other kunit tests

From: Gary Guo

Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 18:05:51 EST


Currently in Rust, kunit tests are handled with `kunit_tests`, while the
doctests generate a lot `extern "C"` functions and invoke them through a
generated C wrapper.

This is currently needed because of the special treatment of file name and
line numbers from doctests. Convert them to override `file!()` and
`line!()` macro instead, and use them inside `kunit_assert!`.

With this it is possible to just generate `#[kunit_tests]` and `#[test]`
for doctests.

David mentioned in [1] that this should route via the Rust tree.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/e30d16ec-f5a3-4cd8-9b25-96e0dfa8b9d2@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ [1]

Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v2:
- Rebased on v7.3-rc1
- Picked up tags
- Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616-kunit-v1-0-b191604a8d6b@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Gary Guo (3):
rust: kunit: use `file!()` inside `kunit_assert!`
rust: kunit: use `line!()` inside `kunit_assert!`
rust: doctest: generate Rust kunit test suites

Documentation/rust/general-information.rst | 4 +-
init/Kconfig | 3 --
rust/Makefile | 4 +-
rust/kernel/kunit.rs | 11 +++--
rust/kernel/str.rs | 2 +-
rust/macros/helpers.rs | 16 -------
rust/macros/kunit.rs | 5 +-
rust/macros/lib.rs | 5 --
scripts/rustdoc_test_gen.rs | 73 ++++++++----------------------
9 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
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base-commit: cee9395acd8043be0644b25c34bfa86623f2b935
change-id: 20260616-kunit-348f2c029b1e

Best regards,
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Gary Guo <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>