linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] regmap: kunit: Ensure that changed bytes are actually different

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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 12:44:08 +0000
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] regmap: kunit: Ensure that changed bytes are actually
 different

On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 03:20:40PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 2/9/24 14:39, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > +       // so anything might be in there, including the values from
> > > +       // the val[] array.
> > > +       hw_buf[2] = val[0];
> > > +       hw_buf[3] = val[1];
> > > +       hw_buf[4] = val[0];
> > > +       hw_buf[5] = val[1];

> > I don't understand how this interacts with the pre-sync check?

> That is because the test expects the memory in hw_buf[] and val[] to be
> different (because hw_buf[] wasn't updated to the new values). The above
> cheat forces hw_buf[2,3] and val[0,1] to be the same, so the pre-sync test
> fails. The post-sync test passes because the values are expected to be
> the same at that time.

Ah, that was my read - I was thinking I was missing some way for both
tests to pass.

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