Re: [PATCH v1 4/4] Documentation: kunit: document support for QEMU in kunit_tool

[Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>]

On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 1:01 AM David Gow <davidgow@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 5:31 AM Brendan Higgins
> <brendanhiggins@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Document QEMU support, what it does, and how to use it in kunit_tool.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
> > ---
>
> This is a good start, and probably meets the minimum requirements, but
> I do have a number of comments and suggestions below.
>
> Cheers,
> -- David
>
> >  Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> > index 650f99590df57..b74bd7c87cc20 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> > @@ -612,14 +612,39 @@ only things to be aware of when doing so.
> >  The biggest impediment will likely be that certain KUnit features and
> >  infrastructure may not support your target environment. For example, at this
> >  time the KUnit Wrapper (``tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py``) does not work outside
> > -of UML. Unfortunately, there is no way around this. Using UML (or even just a
> > -particular architecture) allows us to make a lot of assumptions that make it
> > -possible to do things which might otherwise be impossible.
> > +of UML and QEMU. Unfortunately, there is no way around this. Using UML and QEMU
> > +(or even just a particular architecture) allows us to make a lot of assumptions
> > +that make it possible to do things which might otherwise be impossible.
>
> This is a bit more awkward now, and I don't think gives quite the
> right impression. Particularly the "Unfortunately, there is no way
> around this." bit: there's no fundamental reason that someone couldn't
> implement support for some other emulator (or even a setup which
> pushed to real hardware and read results over serial), it'd just take
> a bit of work to implement (like this patch series has done for qemu).
>
> Personally, I think it'd be easiest to simplify this section and say
> that kunit_tool currently only fully supports some architectures, via
> UML and QEMU.

Cool, I will fix that in the next revision.

> >
> >  Nevertheless, all core KUnit framework features are fully supported on all
> > -architectures, and using them is straightforward: all you need to do is to take
> > -your kunitconfig, your Kconfig options for the tests you would like to run, and
> > -merge them into whatever config your are using for your platform. That's it!
> > +architectures, and using them is straightforward: Most popular architectures
> > +are supported directly in the KUnit Wrapper via QEMU.  Currently, supported
> > +architectures on QEMU include:
> > +
> > +*   i386
> > +*   x86_64
> > +*   arm
> > +*   arm64
> > +*   alpha
> > +*   powerpc
> > +*   riscv
> > +*   s390
> > +*   sparc
> > +
> > +In order to run KUnit tests on one of these architectures via QEMU with the
> > +KUnit wrapper, all you need to do is specify the flags ``--arch`` and
> > +``--cross_compile`` when invoking the KUnit Wrapper. For example, we could run
> > +the default KUnit tests on ARM in the following manner (assuming we have an ARM
> > +toolchain installed):
> > +
> > +.. code-block:: bash
> > +
> > +       tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --timeout=60 --jobs=12 --arch=arm --cross_compile=arm-linux-gnueabihf-
> > +
>
> Is it worth also documenting the --qemu_config option here?
> (Particularly given the restriction on its path?) Or is that something
> best added to the kunit_tool page?
>
> That being said, changes to the kunit_tool page are probably worth
> adding as a section in the updated page:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kselftest/patch/20210417034553.1048895-1-davidgow@google.com/
>
> At the very least, it'd be nice to have the new QEMU-related options
> documented there.

Probably a good idea. However, I will ask Shuah to pick up the
Documentation changes before I document the new options to avoid
conflicts.

> > +Alternatively, if you want to run your tests on real hardware or in some other
> > +emulation environment, all you need to do is to take your kunitconfig, your
> > +Kconfig options for the tests you would like to run, and merge them into
> > +whatever config your are using for your platform. That's it!
> >
> >  For example, let's say you have the following kunitconfig:
> >
> > --
> > 2.31.1.607.g51e8a6a459-goog
> >