On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM Tamir Duberstein <tam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 10:42:24AM -0500, Tamir Duberstein wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 06:40:20AM -0500, Tamir Duberstein wrote: > > > > > Convert this unit test to a KUnit test. This allows the test to > > > > > benefit > > > > > from the KUnit tooling. Note that care is taken to avoid test-ending > > > > > assertions in worker threads, which is unsafe in KUnit (and wasn't > > > > > done > > > > > before this change either). > > > > > > > > So this was something simple, and now I need to know how to operate this > > > > kunit nonsense :-( > > > > > > > > How is that an improvement? > > > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > > > David enumerated some of the benefits of KUnit in another > > > thread: > > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABVgOS=kzrm2dwyp1hzvs0zh7vqulxmty2t2ti53dqadrw+...@mail.gmail.com/. > > > > > > My personal reason for preferring KUnit is that it's much easier to > > > run from userspace; the tooling takes care of building, starting the > > > VM, running the tests, and producing a human-friendly report. > > > > Wait what -- you have to run a VM just to use Kunit? That's a hard pass. > > > > If I can't simply run it natively on my test box, its a no go. And it > > using python also don't help, you shouldn't be needing that to load a > > module. > > The tooling I mention is all optional. You can still use modprobe to > run the test as a module or at boot. In this case you'd set: > > CONFIG_KUNIT=y > CONFIG_WW_MUTEX_KUNIT_TEST=m > > and then run the test via: > > ``` > modprobe ww_mutex_kunit > ``` > > or to run at boot: > > CONFIG_KUNIT=y > CONFIG_WW_MUTEX_KUNIT_TEST=y > > Link: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/kunit/running_tips.html#running-built-in-tests > Link: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/kunit/running_tips.html#running-tests-as-modules
Gentle ping. Peter, does the above address your concerns?
