Re: [PATCH v2] lib: Convert test_printf.c to KUnit

From: Arpitha Raghunandan
Date: Fri Oct 23 2020 - 09:43:16 EST


On 23/10/20 4:36 pm, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 22/10/2020 21.16, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 08:43:49PM +0530, Arpitha Raghunandan wrote:
>>> Convert test lib/test_printf.c to KUnit. More information about
>>> KUnit can be found at:
>>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/kunit/index.html.
>>> KUnit provides a common framework for unit tests in the kernel.
>>> KUnit and kselftest are standardizing around KTAP, converting this
>>> test to KUnit makes this test output in KTAP which we are trying to
>>> make the standard test result format for the kernel. More about
>>> the KTAP format can be found at:
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/CY4PR13MB1175B804E31E502221BC8163FD830@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/.
>>> I ran both the original and converted tests as is to produce the
>>> output for success of the test in the two cases. I also ran these
>>> tests with a small modification to show the difference in the output
>>> for failure of the test in both cases. The modification I made is:
>>> - test("127.000.000.001|127.0.0.1", "%pi4|%pI4", &sa.sin_addr, &sa.sin_addr);
>>> + test("127-000.000.001|127.0.0.1", "%pi4|%pI4", &sa.sin_addr, &sa.sin_addr);
>>>
>>> Original test success:
>>> [ 0.591262] test_printf: loaded.
>>> [ 0.591409] test_printf: all 388 tests passed
>>>
>>> Original test failure:
>>> [ 0.619345] test_printf: loaded.
>>> [ 0.619394] test_printf: vsnprintf(buf, 256, "%piS|%pIS", ...)
>>> wrote '127.000.000.001|127.0.0.1', expected
>>> '127-000.000.001|127.0.0.1'
>>> [ 0.619395] test_printf: vsnprintf(buf, 25, "%piS|%pIS", ...) wrote
>>> '127.000.000.001|127.0.0.', expected '127-000.000.001|127.0.0.'
>>> [ 0.619396] test_printf: kvasprintf(..., "%piS|%pIS", ...) returned
>>> '127.000.000.001|127.0.0.1', expected '127-000.000.001|127.0.0.1'
>>> [ 0.619495] test_printf: failed 3 out of 388 tests
>>>
>>> Converted test success:
>>> # Subtest: printf-kunit-test
>>> 1..1
>>> ok 1 - selftest
>>> ok 1 - printf-kunit-test
>>>
>>> Converted test failure:
>>> # Subtest: printf-kunit-test
>>> 1..1
>>> # selftest: EXPECTATION FAILED at lib/printf_kunit.c:82
>>> vsnprintf(buf, 256, "%pi4|%pI4", ...) wrote
>>> '127.000.000.001|127.0.0.1', expected '127-000.000.001|127.0.0.1'
>>> # selftest: EXPECTATION FAILED at lib/printf_kunit.c:82
>>> vsnprintf(buf, 5, "%pi4|%pI4", ...) wrote '127.', expected '127-'
>>> # selftest: EXPECTATION FAILED at lib/printf_kunit.c:118
>>> kvasprintf(..., "%pi4|%pI4", ...) returned
>>> '127.000.000.001|127.0.0.1', expected '127-000.000.001|127.0.0.1'
>>> not ok 1 - selftest
>>> not ok 1 - printf-kunit-test
>>
>> Not bad. Rasmus, what do you think?
>
> Much better, but that '1..1' and reporting the entire test suite as 1
> single (failing or passing) test is (also) a regression. Look at the
> original
>
>>> [ 0.591409] test_printf: all 388 tests passed
>
> or
>
>>> [ 0.619495] test_printf: failed 3 out of 388 tests
>
> That's far more informative, and I'd prefer if the summary information
> (whether in the all-good case or some-failing) included something like
> this. In particular, I have at some point spotted that I failed to
> properly hook up a new test case (or perhaps failed to re-compile, or
> somehow still ran the old kernel binary, don't remember which it was) by
> noticing that the total number of tests hadn't increased. The new output
> would not help catch such PEBKACs.
>
> Rasmus
>

Splitting the test into multiple test cases in KUnit will display the number and name of tests that pass or fail. This will be similar to the lib/list-test.c test as can be seen here: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/lib/list-test.c. I will work on this for the next version of this patch.