On 2/5/20 3:09 PM, Russell Currey wrote:
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020, at 7:00 AM, Brendan Higgins wrote:
On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 9:58 AM David Gow davidgow@google.com wrote:
One thing we'd like to do with kunit_tool is to make its functionality a bit more independent: in particular, allowing the configuration, running the kernel, and parsing the results to be done independently.
If that's the case, it may make sense for "kunit.py run" or similar to not do anything with the .config, and to relegate that to a separate "configuration" step, which would allow someone to modify the configuration themselves (e.g., using make menuconfig) and re-run the tests, but also allow the config to be explicitly regenerated when helpful.
Exactly what that'd end up looking like (and to what extent we'd still want to support a single command that'd do both) are still up in the air: but I think a general "separation of concerns" like this is probably the right path forward for kunit_tool.
You and I have talked about splitting up kunit_tool's functionality before. I agree with the idea.
I imagine it that we would have
- configuration
- running tests
- dmesg/TAP parsing
as separate runnable scripts. I think that would make it a lot easier for people with various test bed setups to reuse our code in their test harness.
Nevertheless, I think it would also be nice to have, as Ted has previously suggested, a short easy to remember one line command that just works; it is easily said, and much harder to do, but I think it is at odds with the separation of functionality. I guess one solution might just be to have these three separate tools, and then the classic kunit.py script that combines the functionalities in a single step, or as Ted suggested we could have some sort of default "make kunit" command or something like that. I am not really sure what is best here.
It doesn't address the problem of separation of functionality in anyway, but one way we could achieve the idea of having a command that just works, is by putting a line in MAINTAINERS file entries that have a command that a maintainer expects a submitter to run before sending a patch to LKML. That might at least make it possible to hack together a single line KUnit command for every relevant MAINTAINERS entry. (Obviously there is no reason we have to do this particular idea just for KUnit. We could do this for other tests as well.) Russel, I think this was your idea at LCA?
Hi Brendan, it wasn't me, it was someone in the audience during questions in my testing talk. I don't recall who.
They were suggesting a script like get_maintainers - i.e. get_tests - that for a given file/patch/commit it gives you a suggested set of tests, whether that's KUnit you can run there and then, or selftests you can run once it's booted, or maybe external test suites that are relevant.
I like this idea of get_tests type script that could be run separately as well as part of check_patch or get_maintainers will serve as a reminder or hint to patch submitter.
We have some pieces in the MAINTAINERS file now. Selftest files are usually listed under subsystem entries. get_tests could leverage that and we will definitely more information to for a complete set of tests for a subsystem.
thanks, -- Shuah