[RFC 0/3] kunit vs structleak

[Arnd Bergmann]

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

I ran into a couple of problems with kunit tests taking too much stack
space, sometimes dangerously so. These the the three instances that
cause an increase over the warning limit of some architectures:

lib/bitfield_kunit.c:93:1: error: the frame size of 7440 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
drivers/base/test/property-entry-test.c:481:1: error: the frame size of 2640 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
drivers/thunderbolt/test.c:1529:1: error: the frame size of 1176 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

Ideally there should be a way to rewrite the kunit infrastructure
that avoids the explosion of stack data when the structleak plugin
is used.

A rather drastic measure would be to use Kconfig logic to make
the two options mutually exclusive. This would clearly work, but
is probably not needed.

As a simpler workaround, this disables the plugin for the three
files in which the excessive stack usage was observed.

      Arnd

Arnd Bergmann (3):
  bitfield: build kunit tests without structleak plugin
  drivers/base: build kunit tests without structleak plugin
  thunderbolt: build kunit tests without structleak plugin

 drivers/base/test/Makefile   | 1 +
 drivers/thunderbolt/Makefile | 1 +
 lib/Makefile                 | 1 +
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

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