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Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 11:32:08 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@...ux.dev>,
	David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>, Rae Moar <rmoar@...gle.com>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
	Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>,
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, kunit-dev@...glegroups.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kunit: tool: Build compile_commands.json

Hi Brendan,

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 07:40:53PM +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> compile_commands.json is used by clangd[1] to provide code navigation
> and completion functionality to editors. See [2] for an example
> configuration that includes this functionality for VSCode.
> 
> It can currently be built manually when using kunit.py, by running:
> 
>   ./scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py -d .kunit
> 
> With this change however, it's built automatically so you don't need to
> manually keep it up to date.
> 
> Unlike the manual approach, having make build the compile_commands.json
> means that it appears in the build output tree instead of at the root of
> the source tree, so you'll need to add --compile-commands-dir=.kunit to
> your clangd args for it to be found. This might turn out to be pretty
> annoying, I'm not sure yet. If so maybe we can later add some hackery to
> kunit.py to work around it.
> 
> [1] https://clangd.llvm.org/
> [2] https://github.com/FlorentRevest/linux-kernel-vscode
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>

This makes sense to do automatically in my opinion, as Python will
already be available (which is the only dependency of
gen_compile_commands.py as far as I am aware) and it should not take
that long to generate.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>

> ---
>  tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py
> index 7254c110ff23..61931c4926fd 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py
> +++ b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py
> @@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ class LinuxSourceTreeOperations:
>  			raise ConfigError(e.output.decode())
>  
>  	def make(self, jobs: int, build_dir: str, make_options: Optional[List[str]]) -> None:
> -		command = ['make', 'ARCH=' + self._linux_arch, 'O=' + build_dir, '--jobs=' + str(jobs)]
> +		command = ['make', 'all', 'compile_commands.json', 'ARCH=' + self._linux_arch,
> +			   'O=' + build_dir, '--jobs=' + str(jobs)]
>  		if make_options:
>  			command.extend(make_options)
>  		if self._cross_compile:
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 3c999d1ae3c75991902a1a7dad0cb62c2a3008b4
> change-id: 20240516-kunit-compile-commands-d994074fc2be
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>
> 
>