## TL;DR
This patchset adds a centralized executor to dispatch tests rather than relying on late_initcall to schedule each test suite separately along with a couple of new features that depend on it.
Also, sorry for the delay in getting this new revision out. I have been really busy for the past couple weeks.
## What am I trying to do?
Conceptually, I am trying to provide a mechanism by which test suites can be grouped together so that they can be reasoned about collectively. The last two of three patches in this series add features which depend on this:
PATCH 5/7 Prints out a test plan[1] right before KUnit tests are run; this is valuable because it makes it possible for a test harness to detect whether the number of tests run matches the number of tests expected to be run, ensuring that no tests silently failed. The test plan includes a count of tests that will run. With the centralized executor, the tests are located in a single data structure and thus can be counted.
PATCH 6/7 Add a new kernel command-line option which allows the user to specify that the kernel poweroff, halt, or reboot after completing all KUnit tests; this is very handy for running KUnit tests on UML or a VM so that the UML/VM process exits cleanly immediately after running all tests without needing a special initramfs. The centralized executor provides a definitive point when all tests have completed and the poweroff, halt, or reboot could occur.
In addition, by dispatching tests from a single location, we can guarantee that all KUnit tests run after late_init is complete, which was a concern during the initial KUnit patchset review (this has not been a problem in practice, but resolving with certainty is nevertheless desirable).
Other use cases for this exist, but the above features should provide an idea of the value that this could provide.
## Changes since last revision: - On patch 7/7, I added some additional wording around the kunit_shutdown command line option explaining that it runs after built-in tests as suggested by Frank. - On the coverletter, I improved some wording and added a missing link. I also specified the base-commit for the series. - Frank asked for some changes to the documentation; however, David is taking care of that in a separate patch[2], so I did not make those changes here. There will be some additional changes necessary after David's patch is applied.
Alan Maguire (1): kunit: test: create a single centralized executor for all tests
Brendan Higgins (5): vmlinux.lds.h: add linker section for KUnit test suites arch: um: add linker section for KUnit test suites init: main: add KUnit to kernel init kunit: test: add test plan to KUnit TAP format Documentation: Add kunit_shutdown to kernel-parameters.txt
David Gow (1): kunit: Add 'kunit_shutdown' option
.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 ++ arch/um/include/asm/common.lds.S | 4 + include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 8 ++ include/kunit/test.h | 82 ++++++++++++------- init/main.c | 4 + lib/kunit/Makefile | 3 +- lib/kunit/executor.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++ lib/kunit/test.c | 11 --- tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py | 2 +- tools/testing/kunit/kunit_parser.py | 76 ++++++++++++++--- .../test_is_test_passed-all_passed.log | 1 + .../test_data/test_is_test_passed-crash.log | 1 + .../test_data/test_is_test_passed-failure.log | 1 + 13 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) create mode 100644 lib/kunit/executor.c
base-commit: a2f0b878c3ca531a1706cb2a8b079cea3b17bafc
[1] https://github.com/isaacs/testanything.github.io/blob/tap14/tap-version-14-s... [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11383635/