linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] kunit: Expose 'static stub' API to redirect functions

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Date:   Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:05:00 -0700
From:   Steve Muckle <smuckle@...gle.com>
To:     Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
        David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>
Cc:     Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        kunit-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joe Fradley <joefradley@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] kunit: Expose 'static stub' API to redirect
 functions

On 4/4/22 13:16, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 10:13 PM David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com> wrote:
>> +/**
>> + * KUNIT_STATIC_STUB_REDIRECT() - call a replacement 'static stub' if one exists
>> + * @real_fn_name: The name of this function (as an identifier, not a string)
>> + * @args: All of the arguments passed to this function
>> + *
>> + * This is a function prologue which is used to allow calls to the current
>> + * function to be redirected by a KUnit test. KUnit tests can call
>> + * kunit_activate_static_stub() to pass a replacement function in. The
>> + * replacement function will be called by KUNIT_TRIGGER_STATIC_STUB(), which
>> + * will then return from the function. If the caller is not in a KUnit context,
>> + * the function will continue execution as normal.
>> + *
>> + * Example:
>> + *
>> + * .. code-block:: c
>> + *     int real_func(int n)
>> + *     {
>> + *             KUNIT_STATIC_STUB_REDIRECT(real_func, n);

I wish there was a way to avoid having to repeat the function's name and 
arguments here...