linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces

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Message-ID: <20250530092659.GD21197@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 11:26:59 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Alessandro Carminati <acarmina@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Daniel Diaz <daniel.diaz@...aro.org>,
	David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>,
	Arthur Grillo <arthurgrillo@...eup.net>,
	Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@...ux.dev>,
	Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
	Ville Syrjala <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Alessandro Carminati <alessandro.carminati@...il.com>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>,
	Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@....qualcomm.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@...aro.org>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, kunit-dev@...glegroups.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning
 backtraces

On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 01:27:51PM +0000, Alessandro Carminati wrote:
> A helper function, `__kunit_is_suppressed_warning()`, is used to determine
> whether suppression applies. It is marked as `noinstr`, since some `WARN*()`
> sites reside in non-instrumentable sections. As it uses `strcmp`, a
> `noinstr` version of `strcmp` was introduced.

That just sounds all sorts of wrong.