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Delete "kunit-tool.rst" to remove repeated info from KUnit docs.
"What is kunit_tool?" was integrated into index.rst, the remaining
sections were moved into run_wrapper.rst and renamed as follows:

"What is a .kunitconfig?" -> "Creating a ``.kunitconfig`` file"
"Getting Started with kunit_tool" -> "Running tests with kunit_tool"
"Configuring, Building, and Running Tests" ->
	"Configuring, building, and running tests"
"Running Tests on QEMU" -> "Running tests on QEMU"
"Parsing Test Results" -> "Parsing test results"
"Filtering Tests" -> "Filtering tests"
"Other Useful Options" -> "Running command-line arguments"

Signed-off-by: Tales Aparecida <tales.aparecida@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sadiya Kazi <sadiyakazi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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run_wrapper
run_manual
usage
kunit-tool
api/index
style
faq
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examples.
* Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/api/index.rst - KUnit APIs
used for testing.
* Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/kunit-tool.rst - kunit_tool helper
script.
* Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/faq.rst - KUnit common questions and
answers.

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
=================
kunit_tool How-To
=================
What is kunit_tool?
===================
kunit_tool is a script (``tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py``) that aids in building
the Linux kernel as UML (`User Mode Linux
<http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/>`_), running KUnit tests, parsing
the test results and displaying them in a user friendly manner.
kunit_tool addresses the problem of being able to run tests without needing a
virtual machine or actual hardware with User Mode Linux. User Mode Linux is a
Linux architecture, like ARM or x86; however, unlike other architectures it
compiles the kernel as a standalone Linux executable that can be run like any
other program directly inside of a host operating system. To be clear, it does
not require any virtualization support: it is just a regular program.
What is a .kunitconfig?
=======================
It's just a defconfig that kunit_tool looks for in the build directory
(``.kunit`` by default). kunit_tool uses it to generate a .config as you might
expect. In addition, it verifies that the generated .config contains the CONFIG
options in the .kunitconfig; the reason it does this is so that it is easy to
be sure that a CONFIG that enables a test actually ends up in the .config.
It's also possible to pass a separate .kunitconfig fragment to kunit_tool,
which is useful if you have several different groups of tests you wish
to run independently, or if you want to use pre-defined test configs for
certain subsystems.
Getting Started with kunit_tool
===============================
If a kunitconfig is present at the root directory, all you have to do is:
.. code-block:: bash
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run
However, you most likely want to use it with the following options:
.. code-block:: bash
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --timeout=30 --jobs=`nproc --all`
- ``--timeout`` sets a maximum amount of time to allow tests to run.
- ``--jobs`` sets the number of threads to use to build the kernel.
.. note::
This command will work even without a .kunitconfig file: if no
.kunitconfig is present, a default one will be used instead.
If you wish to use a different .kunitconfig file (such as one provided for
testing a particular subsystem), you can pass it as an option.
.. code-block:: bash
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --kunitconfig=fs/ext4/.kunitconfig
For a list of all the flags supported by kunit_tool, you can run:
.. code-block:: bash
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --help
Configuring, Building, and Running Tests
========================================
It's also possible to run just parts of the KUnit build process independently,
which is useful if you want to make manual changes to part of the process.
A .config can be generated from a .kunitconfig by using the ``config`` argument
when running kunit_tool:
.. code-block:: bash
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py config
Similarly, if you just want to build a KUnit kernel from the current .config,
you can use the ``build`` argument:
.. code-block:: bash
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py build
And, if you already have a built UML kernel with built-in KUnit tests, you can
run the kernel and display the test results with the ``exec`` argument:
.. code-block:: bash
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py exec
The ``run`` command which is discussed above is equivalent to running all three
of these in sequence.
All of these commands accept a number of optional command-line arguments. The
``--help`` flag will give a complete list of these, or keep reading this page
for a guide to some of the more useful ones.
Parsing Test Results
====================
KUnit tests output their results in TAP (Test Anything Protocol) format.
kunit_tool will, when running tests, parse this output and print a summary
which is much more pleasant to read. If you wish to look at the raw test
results in TAP format, you can pass the ``--raw_output`` argument.
.. code-block:: bash
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --raw_output
The raw output from test runs may contain other, non-KUnit kernel log
lines. You can see just KUnit output with ``--raw_output=kunit``:
.. code-block:: bash
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --raw_output=kunit
If you have KUnit results in their raw TAP format, you can parse them and print
the human-readable summary with the ``parse`` command for kunit_tool. This
accepts a filename for an argument, or will read from standard input.
.. code-block:: bash
# Reading from a file
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py parse /var/log/dmesg
# Reading from stdin
dmesg | ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py parse
This is very useful if you wish to run tests in a configuration not supported
by kunit_tool (such as on real hardware, or an unsupported architecture).
Filtering Tests
===============
It's possible to run only a subset of the tests built into a kernel by passing
a filter to the ``exec`` or ``run`` commands. For example, if you only wanted
to run KUnit resource tests, you could use:
.. code-block:: bash
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run 'kunit-resource*'
This uses the standard glob format for wildcards.
Running Tests on QEMU
=====================
kunit_tool supports running tests on QEMU as well as via UML (as mentioned
elsewhere). The default way of running tests on QEMU requires two flags:
``--arch``
Selects a collection of configs (Kconfig as well as QEMU configs
options, etc) that allow KUnit tests to be run on the specified
architecture in a minimal way; this is usually not much slower than
using UML. The architecture argument is the same as the name of the
option passed to the ``ARCH`` variable used by Kbuild. Not all
architectures are currently supported by this flag, but can be handled
by the ``--qemu_config`` discussed later. If ``um`` is passed (or this
this flag is ignored) the tests will run via UML. Non-UML architectures,
e.g. i386, x86_64, arm, um, etc. Non-UML run on QEMU.
``--cross_compile``
Specifies the use of a toolchain by Kbuild. The argument passed here is
the same passed to the ``CROSS_COMPILE`` variable used by Kbuild. As a
reminder this will be the prefix for the toolchain binaries such as gcc
for example ``sparc64-linux-gnu-`` if you have the sparc toolchain
installed on your system, or
``$HOME/toolchains/microblaze/gcc-9.2.0-nolibc/microblaze-linux/bin/microblaze-linux-``
if you have downloaded the microblaze toolchain from the 0-day website
to a directory in your home directory called ``toolchains``.
In many cases it is likely that you may want to run an architecture which is
not supported by the ``--arch`` flag, or you may want to just run KUnit tests
on QEMU using a non-default configuration. For this use case, you can write
your own QemuConfig. These QemuConfigs are written in Python. They must have an
import line ``from ..qemu_config import QemuArchParams`` at the top of the file
and the file must contain a variable called ``QEMU_ARCH`` that has an instance
of ``QemuArchParams`` assigned to it. An example can be seen in
``tools/testing/kunit/qemu_configs/x86_64.py``.
Once you have a QemuConfig you can pass it into kunit_tool using the
``--qemu_config`` flag; when used this flag replaces the ``--arch`` flag. If we
were to do this with the ``x86_64.py`` example from above, the invocation would
look something like this:
.. code-block:: bash
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run \
--timeout=60 \
--jobs=12 \
--qemu_config=./tools/testing/kunit/qemu_configs/x86_64.py
Other Useful Options
====================
kunit_tool has a number of other command-line arguments which can be useful
when adapting it to fit your environment or needs.
Some of the more useful ones are:
``--help``
Lists all of the available options. Note that different commands
(``config``, ``build``, ``run``, etc) will have different supported
options. Place ``--help`` before the command to list common options,
and after the command for options specific to that command.
``--build_dir``
Specifies the build directory that kunit_tool will use. This is where
the .kunitconfig file is located, as well as where the .config and
compiled kernel will be placed. Defaults to ``.kunit``.
``--make_options``
Specifies additional options to pass to ``make`` when compiling a
kernel (with the ``build`` or ``run`` commands). For example, to enable
compiler warnings, you can pass ``--make_options W=1``.
``--alltests``
Builds a UML kernel with all config options enabled using ``make
allyesconfig``. This allows you to run as many tests as is possible,
but is very slow and prone to breakage as new options are added or
modified. In most cases, enabling all tests which have satisfied
dependencies by adding ``CONFIG_KUNIT_ALL_TESTS=1`` to your
.kunitconfig is preferable.
There are several other options (and new ones are often added), so do check
``--help`` if you're looking for something not mentioned here.

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
=========================
Run Tests with kunit_tool
=========================
=============================
Running tests with kunit_tool
=============================
We can either run KUnit tests using kunit_tool or can run tests
manually, and then use kunit_tool to parse the results. To run tests
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./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --help
Create a ``.kunitconfig`` File
===============================
Creating a ``.kunitconfig`` file
================================
If we want to run a specific set of tests (rather than those listed
in the KUnit ``defconfig``), we can provide Kconfig options in the
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The build dir needs to be set for ``make menuconfig`` to
work, therefore by default use ``make O=.kunit menuconfig``.
Configure, Build, and Run Tests
===============================
Configuring, building, and running tests
========================================
If we want to make manual changes to the KUnit build process, we
can run part of the KUnit build process independently.
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./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py exec
The ``run`` command discussed in section: **Run Tests with kunit_tool**,
The ``run`` command discussed in section: **Running tests with kunit_tool**,
is equivalent to running the above three commands in sequence.
Parse Test Results
==================
Parsing test results
====================
KUnit tests output displays results in TAP (Test Anything Protocol)
format. When running tests, kunit_tool parses this output and prints
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# Reading from stdin
dmesg | ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py parse
Run Selected Test Suites
========================
Filtering tests
===============
By passing a bash style glob filter to the ``exec`` or ``run``
commands, we can run a subset of the tests built into a kernel . For
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.. _kunit-on-qemu:
Run Tests on qemu
=================
Running tests on QEMU
=====================
kunit_tool supports running tests on qemu as well as
via UML. To run tests on qemu, by default it requires two flags:
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--jobs=12 \
--qemu_config=./tools/testing/kunit/qemu_configs/x86_64.py
Command-Line Arguments
======================
Running command-line arguments
==============================
kunit_tool has a number of other command-line arguments which can
be useful for our test environment. Below are the most commonly used

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examples.
* Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/api/index.rst - KUnit APIs
used for testing.
* Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/kunit-tool.rst - kunit_tool helper
script.
* Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/faq.rst - KUnit common questions and
answers.