[PATCH v2 00/17] kunit: introduce KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework

Wed May 22 21:38:48 UTC 2019

+Bjorn Helgaas

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 12:41 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 11:36:18AM -0700, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 02:05:05PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 8:04 AM Brendan Higgins
> > > <brendanhiggins at google.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 04:44:51PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 01:33:44PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 02:12:40PM -0700, Frank Rowand wrote:
> > > > > > > However, the reply is incorrect.  Kselftest in-kernel tests (which
> > > > > > > is the context here) can be configured as built in instead of as
> > > > > > > a module, and built in a UML kernel.  The UML kernel can boot,
> > > > > > > running the in-kernel tests before UML attempts to invoke the
> > > > > > > init process.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Um, Citation needed?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I don't see any evidence for this in the kselftest documentation, nor
> > > > > > do I see any evidence of this in the kselftest Makefiles.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > There exists test modules in the kernel that run before the init
> > > > > > scripts run --- but that's not strictly speaking part of kselftests,
> > > > > > and do not have any kind of infrastructure.  As noted, the
> > > > > > kselftests_harness header file fundamentally assumes that you are
> > > > > > running test code in userspace.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yeah I really like the "no userspace required at all" design of kunit,
> > > > > while still collecting results in a well-defined way (unless the current
> > > > > self-test that just run when you load the module, with maybe some
> > > > > kselftest ad-hoc wrapper around to collect the results).
> > > > >
> > > > > What I want to do long-term is to run these kernel unit tests as part of
> > > > > the build-testing, most likely in gitlab (sooner or later, for drm.git
> > > >
> > > > Totally! This is part of the reason I have been insisting on a minimum
> > > > of UML compatibility for all unit tests. If you can suffiently constrain
> > > > the environment that is required for tests to run in, it makes it much
> > > > easier not only for a human to run your tests, but it also makes it a
> > > > lot easier for an automated service to be able to run your tests.
> > > >
> > > > I actually have a prototype presubmit already working on my
> > > > "stable/non-upstream" branch. You can checkout what presubmit results
> > > > look like here[1][2].
> > >
> > > ug gerrit :-)
> >
> > Yeah, yeah, I know, but it is a lot easier for me to get a project set
> > up here using Gerrit, when we already use that for a lot of other
> > projects.
> >
> > Also, Gerrit has gotten a lot better over the last two years or so. Two
> > years ago, I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. It's not so bad
> > anymore, at least if you are used to using a web UI to review code.
>
> I was somewhat joking, I'm just not used to gerrit ... And seems to indeed
> be a lot more polished than last time I looked at it seriously.

I mean, it is still not perfect, but I think it has finally gotten to
the point where I prefer it over reviewing by email for high context
patches where you don't expect a lot of deep discussion.

Still not great for patches where you want to have a lot of discussion.

> > > > > only ofc). So that people get their pull requests (and patch series, we
> > > > > have some ideas to tie this into patchwork) automatically tested for this
> > > >
> > > > Might that be Snowpatch[3]? I talked to Russell, the creator of Snowpatch,
> > > > and he seemed pretty open to collaboration.
> > > >
> > > > Before I heard about Snowpatch, I had an intern write a translation
> > > > layer that made Prow (the presubmit service that I used in the prototype
> > > > above) work with LKML[4].
> > >
> > > There's about 3-4 forks/clones of patchwork. snowpatch is one, we have
> > > a different one on freedesktop.org. It's a bit a mess :-/

I think Snowpatch is an ozlabs project; at least the maintainer works at IBM.

Patchwork originally was a ozlabs project, right?

Has any discussion taken place trying to consolidate some of the forks?

Presubmit clearly seems like a feature that a number of people want.

> > Oh, I didn't realize that. I found your patchwork instance here[5], but
> > do you have a place where I can see the changes you have added to
> > support presubmit?
>
> Ok here's a few links. Aside from the usual patch view we've also added a
> series view:
>
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/project/intel-gfx/series/?ordering=-last_updated
>
> This ties the patches + cover letter together, and it even (tries to at
> least) track revisions. Here's an example which is currently at revision
> 9:
>
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/57232/

Oooh, nice! That looks awesome! Looks like you have a number of presubmits too.

> Below the patch list for each revision we also have the test result list.
> If you click on the grey bar it'll expand with the summary from CI, the
> "See full logs" is link to the full results from our CI. This is driven
> with some REST api from our jenkins.
>
> Patchwork also sends out mails for these results.

Nice! There are obviously a lot of other bots on various kernel
mailing lists. Do you think people would object to sending presubmit
results to the mailing lists by default?

> Source is on gitlab: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/patchwork-fdo

Err, looks like you forked from the ozlab's repo a good while ago.

Still, this all looks great!

> > > > I am not married to either approach, but I think between the two of
> > > > them, most of the initial legwork has been done to make presubmit on
> > > > LKML a reality.
> > >
> > > We do have presubmit CI working already with our freedesktop.org
> > > patchwork. The missing glue is just tying that into gitlab CI somehow
> > > (since we want to unify build testing more and make it easier for
> > > contributors to adjust things).
> >
> > I checked out a couple of your projects on your patchwork instance: AMD
> > X.Org drivers, DRI devel, and Wayland. I saw the tab you added for
> > tests, but none of them actually had any test results. Can you point me
> > at one that does?
>
> Atm we use the CI stuff only on intel-gfx, with the our gpu CI farm, see
> links above.
>
> Cheers, Daniel
>
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > [5] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/
> >
> > > > > super basic stuff.
> > > >
> > > > I am really excited to hear back on what you think!
> > > >
> > > > Cheers!
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://kunit-review.googlesource.com/c/linux/+/1509/10#message-7bfa40efb132e15c8388755c273837559911425c
> > > > [2] https://kunit-review.googlesource.com/c/linux/+/1509/10#message-a6784496eafff442ac98fb068bf1a0f36ee73509
> > > > [3] https://developer.ibm.com/open/projects/snowpatch/
> > > > [4] https://kunit.googlesource.com/prow-lkml/
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Cheers!