Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] platform/chrome: Add Kunit tests for protocol device drivers

[Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 02:22:40PM +0900, Daniel Latypov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:04:53AM -0700, Daniel Latypov wrote:
> > > You mention you don't like how static stubs requires modifying the
> > > code-under-test.
> > > Since it gets eliminated by the preprocessor unless you're compiling
> > > for KUnit, is the concern more so about how it conceptually feels
> > > wrong to do so?
> > > For the Android GKI kernel, they have (or had) KUnit enabled so there
> > > is potentially concern about real runtime cost there, not sure if you
> > > have something similar in mind.
> >
> > Not exactly. Ideally, I think we shouldn't modify the CUT. I'm wondering
> > if there is a way to not change the CUT but also break the external
> > dependencies.
> >
> > > But stepping back, ftrace_stubs technically require modifying the code
> > > to make sure funcs are marked as `noinline`, which this patch series
> > > does not do.
> ...
> > They could be partially inlined even though they are exported symbols.
> 
> So to summarize, right now we're stuck with having to modify the code.
> (Unless someone can come up with something really clever, but not too clever)
> 
> To make it concrete, the current approach would look like:
> 
> int func(char* arg1, int arg2) {
>   KUNIT_STATIC_STUB_REDIRECT(func, arg1, arg2);
>   ... // unchanged
> }
> 
> vs an ftrace/kprobe approach that needs a conditional `noinline`
> 
> KUNIT_STUBBABLE int func(char* arg1, int arg2) {
>   ... // unchanged
> }
> 
> The latter is definitely simpler and less burdensome.
> But I don't know if it's simpler enough to warrant a second
> implementation existing for me personally.

Instead of KUNIT_STUBBABLE macros, I was thinking of:

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 35e6e5240c61..40319083f58b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -979,6 +979,10 @@ ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-inline-functions-called-once
 endif
 
+ifdef CONFIG_KUNIT_KPROBE_STUBS
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-inline
+endif
+
 # `rustc`'s `-Zfunction-sections` applies to data too (as of 1.59.0).
 ifdef CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
 KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL += -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections


I don't know what are most people's usages. I always run KUnit tests in qemu
or at least in some real devices that I less care about the performance.
Thus, turning inline off globally in such environments is totally acceptable.