linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 kunit-next 0/2] kunit: extend kunit resources API

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Message-ID: <cef5ddd1-52c2-dc2b-2e11-9196ab5b094c@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 9 Jun 2020 14:25:05 -0600
From:   Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
        Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com>
Cc:     David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>,
        Patricia Alfonso <trishalfonso@...gle.com>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        KUnit Development <kunit-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 kunit-next 0/2] kunit: extend kunit resources API

On 6/5/20 3:20 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 2:46 PM Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com> wrote:
>>
>> A recent RFC patch set [1] suggests some additional functionality
>> may be needed around kunit resources.  It seems to require
>>
>> 1. support for resources without allocation
>> 2. support for lookup of such resources
>> 3. support for access to resources across multiple kernel threads
>>
>> The proposed changes here are designed to address these needs.
>> The idea is we first generalize the API to support adding
>> resources with static data; then from there we support named
>> resources.  The latter support is needed because if we are
>> in a different thread context and only have the "struct kunit *"
>> to work with, we need a way to identify a resource in lookup.
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/26/1286
>>
>> Changes since v3:
>> - removed unused "init" field from "struct kunit_resources" (Brendan)
> 
> Shuah, it looks like you haven't sent a PR to Linus yet. Would you
> mind picking this up for 5.8?
> 

Applied to linux-kselftest kunit branch for second update for
Linux 5.8-rc1

thanks,
-- Shuah