On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 11:21:58AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 11:12:16AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 07:57:10PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > > > +/**
> > > > > > + * test_kunit_helper_alloc_device - Allocate a mock device for a KUnit test
> > > > > > + * @test: The test context object
> > > > > > + *
> > > > > > + * This allocates a fake struct &device to create a mock for a KUnit
> > > > > > + * test. The device will also be bound to a fake driver. It will thus be
> > > > > > + * able to leverage the usual infrastructure and most notably the
> > > > > > + * device-managed resources just like a "real" device.
> > > > > 
> > > > > What specific "usual infrastructure" are you wanting to access here?
> > > > > 
> > > > > And again, if you want a fake device, make a virtual one, by just
> > > > > calling device_create().
> > > > > 
> > > > > Or are you wanting to do "more" with that device pointer than
> > > > > device_create() can give you?
> > > > 
> > > > Personally, I was (am) only interested in devm_ unwinding. I guess the
> > > > device_create(), device_add(), device_remove()... (didn't study this
> > > > sequence in details so sorry if there is errors) could've been sufficient
> > > > for me. I haven't looked how much of the code that there is for 'platform
> > > > devices' should be duplicated to support that sequence for testability
> > > > purposes.
> > > 
> > > Any device can access devm_ code, there's no need for it to be a
> > > platform device at all.
> > 
> > Sure but the resources are only released if the device is part of a bus,
> > so it can't be a root_device (or bare device) either
> 
> The resources are not cleaned up when the device is freed no matter if
> it's on a bus or not?  If so, then that's a bug that needs to be fixed,
> and tested :)

Please have a look at:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20230324123157.bbwvfq4gsxnlnfwb@houat/

I couldn't get an answer on whether it was considered a bug or not last
time, but as you can see there's a clear difference between a root
device and a platform device that has probed when it comes to resource
cleanup.

Maxime