[PATCH v9 04/18] kunit: test: add kunit_stream a std::stream like logger

Stephen Boyd sboyd at kernel.org
Thu Aug 1 21:14:46 UTC 2019


Quoting Brendan Higgins (2019-08-01 11:59:57)
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 11:55 AM Brendan Higgins
> <brendanhiggins at google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 1:31 AM Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com> wrote:
> >
> > > To be honest I do not fully understand KUnit design. I am not
> > > completely sure how the tested code is isolated from the running
> > > system. Namely, I do not know if the tested code shares
> > > the same locks with the system running the test.
> >
> > No worries, I don't expect printk to be the hang up in those cases. It
> > sounds like KUnit has a long way to evolve before printk is going to
> > be a limitation.
> 
> So Stephen, what do you think?
> 
> Do you want me to go forward with the new kunit_assert API wrapping
> the string_stream as I have it now? Would you prefer to punt this to a
> later patch? Or would you prefer something else?
> 

I like the struct based approach. If anything, it can be adjusted to
make the code throw some records into a spinlock later on and delay the
formatting of the assertion if need be. Can you resend with that
approach? I don't think I'll have any more comments after that.



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