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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-11-02 22:06:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-11-02 22:06:20 -0700
commit313b6ffc8e90173f1709b2f4bf9d30c4730a1dde (patch)
tree8a3488e109dcb7a06d2faeaa99be7a0d619ab5c1 /Documentation/dev-tools
parent84924e2e620f4395466d772767313fff0de1dad7 (diff)
parent52a5d80a2225e2d0b2a8f4656b76aead2a443b2a (diff)
Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-kunit-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
Pull KUnit updates from Shuah Khan: "Several enhancements and fixes: - ability to run each test suite and test separately - support for timing test run - several fixes and improvements" * tag 'linux-kselftest-kunit-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: kunit: tool: fix typecheck errors about loading qemu configs kunit: tool: continue past invalid utf-8 output kunit: Reset suite count after running tests kunit: tool: improve compatibility of kunit_parser with KTAP specification kunit: tool: yield output from run_kernel in real time kunit: tool: support running each suite/test separately kunit: tool: actually track how long it took to run tests kunit: tool: factor exec + parse steps into a function kunit: add 'kunit.action' param to allow listing out tests kunit: tool: show list of valid --arch options when invalid kunit: tool: misc fixes (unused vars, imports, leaked files) kunit: fix too small allocation when using suite-only kunit.filter_glob kunit: tool: allow filtering test cases via glob kunit: drop assumption in kunit-log-test about current suite
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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/running_tips.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/running_tips.rst
index 30d2147eb5b5..7b6d26a25959 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/running_tips.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/running_tips.rst
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ It can be handy to create a bash function like:
Running a subset of tests
-------------------------
-``kunit.py run`` accepts an optional glob argument to filter tests. Currently
-this only matches against suite names, but this may change in the future.
+``kunit.py run`` accepts an optional glob argument to filter tests. The format
+is ``"<suite_glob>[.test_glob]"``.
Say that we wanted to run the sysctl tests, we could do so via:
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ Say that we wanted to run the sysctl tests, we could do so via:
$ echo -e 'CONFIG_KUNIT=y\nCONFIG_KUNIT_ALL_TESTS=y' > .kunit/.kunitconfig
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run 'sysctl*'
+We can filter down to just the "write" tests via:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ echo -e 'CONFIG_KUNIT=y\nCONFIG_KUNIT_ALL_TESTS=y' > .kunit/.kunitconfig
+ $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run 'sysctl*.*write*'
+
We're paying the cost of building more tests than we need this way, but it's
easier than fiddling with ``.kunitconfig`` files or commenting out
``kunit_suite``'s.