[PATCH v12 11/18] kunit: test: add the concept of assertions

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Brendan Higgins (2019-08-12 11:24:14)
> Add support for assertions which are like expectations except the test
> terminates if the assertion is not satisfied.
> 
> The idea with assertions is that you use them to state all the
> preconditions for your test. Logically speaking, these are the premises
> of the test case, so if a premise isn't true, there is no point in
> continuing the test case because there are no conclusions that can be
> drawn without the premises. Whereas, the expectation is the thing you
> are trying to prove. It is not used universally in x-unit style test
> frameworks, but I really like it as a convention.  You could still
> express the idea of a premise using the above idiom, but I think
> KUNIT_ASSERT_* states the intended idea perfectly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins at google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang at deltatee.com>

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at kernel.org>

> + * Sets an expectation that the values that @left and @right evaluate to are
> + * not equal. This is semantically equivalent to
> + * KUNIT_ASSERT_TRUE(@test, strcmp((@left), (@right))). See KUNIT_ASSERT_TRUE()
> + * for more information.
> + */
> +#define KUNIT_ASSERT_STRNEQ(test, left, right)                                \
> +               KUNIT_BINARY_STR_NE_ASSERTION(test,                            \
> +                                             KUNIT_ASSERTION,                 \
> +                                             left,                            \
> +                                             right)
> +
> +#define KUNIT_ASSERT_STRNEQ_MSG(test, left, right, fmt, ...)                  \
> +               KUNIT_BINARY_STR_NE_MSG_ASSERTION(test,                        \
> +                                                 KUNIT_ASSERTION,             \
> +                                                 left,                        \
> +                                                 right,                       \
> +                                                 fmt,                         \

Same question about tabbing too.

> diff --git a/kunit/test-test.c b/kunit/test-test.c
> index 88f4cdf03db2a..058f3fb37458a 100644
> --- a/kunit/test-test.c
> +++ b/kunit/test-test.c
> @@ -78,11 +78,13 @@ static int kunit_try_catch_test_init(struct kunit *test)
>         struct kunit_try_catch_test_context *ctx;
>  
>         ctx = kunit_kzalloc(test, sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
> +       KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, ctx);

Ah ok. Question still stands if kunit_kzalloc() should just have the
assertion on failure.

>         test->priv = ctx;
>  
>         ctx->try_catch = kunit_kmalloc(test,
>                                        sizeof(*ctx->try_catch),
>                                        GFP_KERNEL);
> +       KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, ctx->try_catch);
>