Re: [PATCH v4 01/18] kunit: test: add KUnit test runner core

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Thu May 16 2019 - 20:37:28 EST


Quoting Brendan Higgins (2019-05-14 15:16:54)
> diff --git a/include/kunit/test.h b/include/kunit/test.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..e682ea0e1f9a5
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/kunit/test.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
[..]
> +/**
> + * struct kunit - represents a running instance of a test.
> + * @priv: for user to store arbitrary data. Commonly used to pass data created
> + * in the init function (see &struct kunit_module).
> + *
> + * Used to store information about the current context under which the test is
> + * running. Most of this data is private and should only be accessed indirectly
> + * via public functions; the one exception is @priv which can be used by the
> + * test writer to store arbitrary data.
> + */
> +struct kunit {
> + void *priv;
> +
> + /* private: internal use only. */
> + const char *name; /* Read only after initialization! */
> + spinlock_t lock; /* Gaurds all mutable test state. */
> + bool success; /* Protected by lock. */

Is this all the spinlock protects? Doesn't seem useful if it's just
protecting access to the variable being set or not because code that
reads it will have a stale view of the value.

> diff --git a/kunit/test.c b/kunit/test.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..86f65ba2bcf92
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/kunit/test.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,229 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +/*
> + * Base unit test (KUnit) API.
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2019, Google LLC.
> + * Author: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/sched.h>
> +#include <linux/sched/debug.h>
> +#include <kunit/test.h>
> +
[...]
> +
> +size_t kunit_module_counter = 1;

static?