From: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 03/18] kunit: test: add string_stream a std::stream like string builder
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:43:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFd5g47y4vDB2P=EsGN8305LGeQPCTveNs-Jd5-=6K-XKY==CA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFd5g44bE0F=wq_fOAnxFTtoOyx1dUshhDAkKWr5hX9ipJ4Sxw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 3:11 PM Brendan Higgins
<brendanhiggins@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 3:04 PM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Brendan Higgins (2019-07-15 14:11:50)
> > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 1:43 PM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I also wonder if it would be better to just have a big slop buffer of a
> > > > 4K page or something so that we almost never have to allocate anything
> > > > with a string_stream and we can just rely on a reader consuming data
> > > > while writers are writing. That might work out better, but I don't quite
> > > > understand the use case for the string stream.
> > >
> > > That makes sense, but might that also waste memory since we will
> > > almost never need that much memory?
> >
> > Why do we care? These are unit tests.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > Having allocations in here makes
> > things more complicated, whereas it would be simpler to have a pointer
> > and a spinlock operating on a chunk of memory that gets flushed out
> > periodically.
>
> I am not so sure. I have to have the logic to allocate memory in some
> case no matter what (what if I need more memory that my preallocated
> chuck?). I think it is simpler to always request an allocation than to
> only sometimes request an allocation.
Another even simpler alternative might be to just allocate memory
using kunit_kmalloc as we need it and just let the kunit_resource code
handle cleaning it all up when the test case finishes.
What do you think?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-15 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-12 8:17 [PATCH v9 00/18] kunit: introduce KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 02/18] kunit: test: add test resource management API Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 20:24 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-15 20:30 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 20:51 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 03/18] kunit: test: add string_stream a std::stream like string builder Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 20:43 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-15 21:11 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 22:04 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-15 22:11 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 22:43 ` Brendan Higgins [this message]
2019-07-16 15:33 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-16 18:55 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 04/18] kunit: test: add kunit_stream a std::stream like logger Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 22:15 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-16 7:57 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-16 8:37 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-16 15:30 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-16 17:51 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-16 17:50 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-16 18:52 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-18 17:50 ` Stephen Boyd
[not found] ` <20190718175024.C3EC421019-+nuXSHJNwjE76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
2019-07-18 19:22 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-19 0:08 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-22 18:10 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-22 20:03 ` Stephen Boyd
[not found] ` <20190722200347.261D3218C9-+nuXSHJNwjE76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
2019-07-22 22:30 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-22 23:54 ` Stephen Boyd
[not found] ` <20190722235411.06C1320840-+nuXSHJNwjE76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
2019-07-23 0:32 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-24 7:31 ` Petr Mladek
2019-07-25 20:21 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-26 8:31 ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-01 18:55 ` Brendan Higgins
[not found] ` <CAFd5g46iAhDZ5C_chi7oYLVOkwcoj6+0nw+kPWuXhqWwWKd9jA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2019-08-01 18:59 ` Brendan Higgins
[not found] ` <CAFd5g473iFfvBnJs2pcwuJYgY+DpgD6RLzyDFL1otUuScgKUag-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2019-08-01 21:14 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-08-01 21:43 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-08-12 20:41 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-08-02 7:37 ` John Ogness
2019-08-12 21:12 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 08/18] objtool: add kunit_try_catch_throw to the noreturn list Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 10/18] kunit: test: add tests for kunit test abort Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 11/18] kunit: test: add the concept of assertions Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 12/18] kunit: test: add tests for KUnit managed resources Brendan Higgins
[not found] ` <20190712081744.87097-1-brendanhiggins-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 01/18] kunit: test: add KUnit test runner core Brendan Higgins
2019-07-15 20:10 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-15 21:25 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 05/18] kunit: test: add the concept of expectations Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 06/18] kbuild: enable building KUnit Brendan Higgins
[not found] ` <20190712081744.87097-7-brendanhiggins-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2019-07-15 20:49 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 07/18] kunit: test: add initial tests Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 09/18] kunit: test: add support for test abort Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 13/18] kunit: tool: add Python wrappers for running KUnit tests Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 14/18] kunit: defconfig: add defconfigs for building " Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 17/18] kernel/sysctl-test: Add null pointer test for sysctl.c:proc_dointvec() Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 15/18] Documentation: kunit: add documentation for KUnit Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 16/18] MAINTAINERS: add entry for KUnit the unit testing framework Brendan Higgins
2019-07-12 8:17 ` [PATCH v9 18/18] MAINTAINERS: add proc sysctl KUnit test to PROC SYSCTL section Brendan Higgins
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