linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ww_mutex: convert self-test to KUnit

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Message-ID: <20250213115951.GF28068@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:59:51 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
	Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
	Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
	llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ww_mutex: convert self-test to KUnit

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 06:40:20AM -0500, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> Convert this unit test to a KUnit test. This allows the test to benefit
> from the KUnit tooling. Note that care is taken to avoid test-ending
> assertions in worker threads, which is unsafe in KUnit (and wasn't done
> before this change either).

So this was something simple, and now I need to know how to operate this
kunit nonsense :-(

How is that an improvement?