Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 2 authors, 2026-06-08

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kunit: Add ability to skip entire test suites

From: Vaibhav Jain <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-08 09:04:33
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Hi David,

Thanks for looking into this patch. My responses inline below:


David Gow [off-list ref] writes:

<snip>
Thanks — this is great! There are a few cases it's not handling
properly, though, particularly with respect to the debugfs support.

I think we need to:
- Reset suite->status to KUNIT_SUCCESS in kunit_init_suite(), so that a
suite which is re-run via debugfs isn't automatically skipped again.
- Fix the result handling in debugfs to handle skipped suites.
Agree, and I have addressed this in v2 of the patch using the
code-snippets you have shared.
- (Optional) Maybe we could get rid of kunit_suite::suite_init_err now
that there's a specific status value. That'd have to be done carefully
to preserve all of the semantics, though.
Yes fully agree that kunit_suite::suite_init_err will be redundant after
introduction of kunit_suite::status. I have started looking into this
and will post a different patch{series} for this.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Here's a quick (and slightly hacky) patch to fix the first couple of issues:
---
diff --git a/lib/kunit/debugfs.c b/lib/kunit/debugfs.c
index 9c326f1837bd..23d34bfdba95 100644
--- a/lib/kunit/debugfs.c
+++ b/lib/kunit/debugfs.c
@@ -58,6 +58,22 @@ static void debugfs_print_result(struct seq_file
*seq, struct string_stream *log
 	spin_unlock(&log->lock);
 }

+/* Print the result line for a suite. */
+static void debugfs_print_ok_not_ok(struct seq_file *seq,
+				    enum kunit_status status,
+				    size_t test_number,
+				    const char *description,
+				    const char *directive)
+{
+	const char *directive_header = (status == KUNIT_SKIPPED) ? " # SKIP "
: "";
+	const char *directive_body = (status == KUNIT_SKIPPED) ? directive : "";
+
+	seq_printf(seq, "%s %zd %s%s%s\n",
+		   kunit_status_to_ok_not_ok(status),
+		   test_number, description, directive_header,
+		   directive_body);
+}
+
 /*
  * /sys/kernel/debug/kunit/<testsuite>/results shows all results for
testsuite.
  */
@@ -77,17 +93,17 @@ static int debugfs_print_results(struct seq_file
*seq, void *v)
 	seq_puts(seq, "1..1\n");

 	/* Print suite header because it is not stored in the test logs. */
-	seq_puts(seq, KUNIT_SUBTEST_INDENT "KTAP version 1\n");
-	seq_printf(seq, KUNIT_SUBTEST_INDENT "# Subtest: %s\n", suite->name);
-	seq_printf(seq, KUNIT_SUBTEST_INDENT "1..%zd\n",
kunit_suite_num_test_cases(suite));
-
-	kunit_suite_for_each_test_case(suite, test_case)
-		debugfs_print_result(seq, test_case->log);
+	if (suite->status != KUNIT_SKIPPED) {
+		seq_puts(seq, KUNIT_SUBTEST_INDENT "KTAP version 1\n");
+		seq_printf(seq, KUNIT_SUBTEST_INDENT "# Subtest: %s\n", suite->name);
+		seq_printf(seq, KUNIT_SUBTEST_INDENT "1..%zd\n",
kunit_suite_num_test_cases(suite));

+		kunit_suite_for_each_test_case(suite, test_case)
+			debugfs_print_result(seq, test_case->log);
+	}
 	debugfs_print_result(seq, suite->log);

-	seq_printf(seq, "%s %d %s\n",
-		   kunit_status_to_ok_not_ok(success), 1, suite->name);
+	debugfs_print_ok_not_ok(seq, success, 1, suite->name,
suite->status_comment);
 	return 0;
 }
Thanks, have modified these proposed changes a bit for v2
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/lib/kunit/test.c b/lib/kunit/test.c
index c0ae45a22b2c..2ff145796450 100644
--- a/lib/kunit/test.c
+++ b/lib/kunit/test.c
@@ -798,9 +798,6 @@ int kunit_run_tests(struct kunit_suite *suite)
 	/* Taint the kernel so we know we've run tests. */
 	add_taint(TAINT_TEST, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);

-	if (suite->status == KUNIT_SKIPPED)
-		goto suite_end;
-
 	if (suite->suite_init) {
 		suite->suite_init_err = suite->suite_init(suite);
 		if (suite->suite_init_err) {
@@ -836,6 +833,7 @@ static void kunit_init_suite(struct kunit_suite *suite)
 	kunit_debugfs_create_suite(suite);
 	suite->status_comment[0] = '\0';
 	suite->suite_init_err = 0;
+	suite->status = KUNIT_SUCCESS;
Thanks, taken this change for v2.
 	if (suite->log)
 		string_stream_clear(suite->log);
---

quoted
 include/kunit/test.h |  1 +
 lib/kunit/test.c     | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/kunit/test.h b/include/kunit/test.h
index ce0573e196ce..395221d623f7 100644
--- a/include/kunit/test.h
+++ b/include/kunit/test.h
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ struct kunit_suite {
 	struct string_stream *log;
 	int suite_init_err;
 	bool is_init;
+	enum kunit_status status;
 };
 
 /* Stores an array of suites, end points one past the end */
diff --git a/lib/kunit/test.c b/lib/kunit/test.c
index 99773e000e1b..989acc770265 100644
--- a/lib/kunit/test.c
+++ b/lib/kunit/test.c
@@ -214,6 +214,9 @@ enum kunit_status kunit_suite_has_succeeded(struct kunit_suite *suite)
 	const struct kunit_case *test_case;
 	enum kunit_status status = KUNIT_SKIPPED;
 
+	if (suite->status == KUNIT_SKIPPED)
+		return KUNIT_SKIPPED;
+
 	if (suite->suite_init_err)
 		return KUNIT_FAILURE;
 
@@ -795,12 +798,20 @@ int kunit_run_tests(struct kunit_suite *suite)
 	/* Taint the kernel so we know we've run tests. */
 	add_taint(TAINT_TEST, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
 
+	if (suite->status == KUNIT_SKIPPED)
+		goto suite_end;
+
Do we want this? If a test is run more than once, we probably want to
re-run suite_init so that we can tell if we should still skip it.
This condition should prevent a 'kunit_suite' from running if its marked
skipped before suite_init() is called. 
While I don't think it's likely that a test which was previously skipped
will suddenly become available, it's not impossible with, e.g., CPU hotplug.
Agree, I have updated kunit_init_suite() to set 'kunit_suite.status' ==
KUNIT_SUCCESS. This should force the suite_init() to be calledback again
when the suite is re-run.


-- 
Cheers
~ Vaibhav
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