[PATCH 6.1 109/481] kunit: tool: make --json do nothing if --raw_ouput is set

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-23T16:11:47Z

6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 309e22effb741a8c65131a2694a49839fd685a27 ]

When --raw_output is set (to any value), we don't actually parse the
test results. So asking to print the test results as json doesn't make
sense.

We internally create a fake test with one passing subtest, so --json
would actually print out something misleading.

This patch:
* Rewords the flag descriptions so hopefully this is more obvious.
* Also updates --raw_output's description to note the default behavior
is to print out only "KUnit" results (actually any KTAP results)
* also renames and refactors some related logic for clarity (e.g.
test_result => test, it's a kunit_parser.Test object).

Notably, this patch does not make it an error to specify --json and
--raw_output together. This is an edge case, but I know of at least one
wrapper around kunit.py that always sets --json. You'd never be able to
use --raw_output with that wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Stable-dep-of: 40804c4974b8 ("kunit: tool: copy caller args in run_kernel to prevent mutation")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py | 34 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
index 4d4663fb578bd..e7b6549712d66 100755
--- a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
+++ b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
@@ -192,12 +192,11 @@ def _map_to_overall_status(test_status: kunit_parser.TestStatus) -> KunitStatus:
def parse_tests(request: KunitParseRequest, metadata: kunit_json.Metadata, input_data: Iterable[str]) -> Tuple[KunitResult, kunit_parser.Test]:
parse_start = time.time()

- test_result = kunit_parser.Test()
-
if request.raw_output:
# Treat unparsed results as one passing test.
- test_result.status = kunit_parser.TestStatus.SUCCESS
- test_result.counts.passed = 1
+ fake_test = kunit_parser.Test()
+ fake_test.status = kunit_parser.TestStatus.SUCCESS
+ fake_test.counts.passed = 1

output: Iterable[str] = input_data
if request.raw_output == 'all':
@@ -206,14 +205,17 @@ def parse_tests(request: KunitParseRequest, metadata: kunit_json.Metadata, input
output = kunit_parser.extract_tap_lines(output, lstrip=False)
for line in output:
print(line.rstrip())
+ parse_time = time.time() - parse_start
+ return KunitResult(KunitStatus.SUCCESS, parse_time), fake_test

- else:
- test_result = kunit_parser.parse_run_tests(input_data)
- parse_end = time.time()
+
+ # Actually parse the test results.
+ test = kunit_parser.parse_run_tests(input_data)
+ parse_time = time.time() - parse_start

if request.json:
json_str = kunit_json.get_json_result(
- test=test_result,
+ test=test,
metadata=metadata)
if request.json == 'stdout':
print(json_str)
@@ -223,10 +225,10 @@ def parse_tests(request: KunitParseRequest, metadata: kunit_json.Metadata, input
stdout.print_with_timestamp("Test results stored in %s" %
os.path.abspath(request.json))

- if test_result.status != kunit_parser.TestStatus.SUCCESS:
- return KunitResult(KunitStatus.TEST_FAILURE, parse_end - parse_start), test_result
+ if test.status != kunit_parser.TestStatus.SUCCESS:
+ return KunitResult(KunitStatus.TEST_FAILURE, parse_time), test

- return KunitResult(KunitStatus.SUCCESS, parse_end - parse_start), test_result
+ return KunitResult(KunitStatus.SUCCESS, parse_time), test

def run_tests(linux: kunit_kernel.LinuxSourceTree,
request: KunitRequest) -> KunitResult:
@@ -359,14 +361,14 @@ def add_exec_opts(parser) -> None:
choices=['suite', 'test'])

def add_parse_opts(parser) -> None:
- parser.add_argument('--raw_output', help='If set don\'t format output from kernel. '
- 'If set to --raw_output=kunit, filters to just KUnit output.',
+ parser.add_argument('--raw_output', help='If set don\'t parse output from kernel. '
+ 'By default, filters to just KUnit output. Use '
+ '--raw_output=all to show everything',
type=str, nargs='?', const='all', default=None, choices=['all', 'kunit'])
parser.add_argument('--json',
nargs='?',
- help='Stores test results in a JSON, and either '
- 'prints to stdout or saves to file if a '
- 'filename is specified',
+ help='Prints parsed test results as JSON to stdout or a file if '
+ 'a filename is specified. Does nothing if --raw_output is set.',
type=str, const='stdout', default=None, metavar='FILE')

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