linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] iov_iter: kunit: Cleanup, abstraction and more tests

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=whTqzkep-RFMcr=S8A2bVx5u_Dgk+f2GXFK-e470jkKjA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2023 11:04:36 -0500
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
        David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        kunit-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] iov_iter: kunit: Cleanup, abstraction and more tests

On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 at 10:50, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
>  (3) Add a function to set up a userspace VM, attach the VM to the kunit
>      testing thread, create an anonymous file, stuff some pages into the
>      file and map the file into the VM to act as a buffer that can be used
>      with UBUF/IOVEC iterators.
>
>      I map an anonymous file with pages attached rather than using MAP_ANON
>      so that I can check the pages obtained from iov_iter_extract_pages()
>      without worrying about them changing due to swap, migrate, etc..
>
>      [?] Is this the best way to do things?  Mirroring execve, it requires
>      a number of extra core symbols to be exported.  Should this be done in
>      the core code?

Do you really need to do this as a kunit test in the kernel itself?

Why not just make it a user-space test as part of tools/testing/selftests?

That's what it smells like to me. You're doing user-level tests, but
you're doing them in the wrong place, so you need to jump through all
these hoops that you really shouldn't.

                Linus