Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kunit: update kconfig options needed for UML coverage

[Daniel Latypov]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 9:56 PM David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>

<snip>

> >         # Append coverage options to the current config
> > -       $ echo -e "CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y\nCONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y\nCONFIG_GCOV=y" >> .kunit/.kunitconfig
> > +       $ echo -e "CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y\nCONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y\nCONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT=y\nCONFIG_GCOV=y" >> .kunit/.kunitconfig
> >         $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run
>
> Would we want to instead use a chain of --kconfig_add arguments? (I
> think there are advantages either way...)

I've been considering this ever since the --kconfig_add patch was accepted.
It's more compatible w/ commands using --kunitconfig, but it also
looks very verbose.
E.g. it looks like

$ tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --make_options=CC=/usr/bin/gcc-6
--kconfig_add=CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
--kconfig_add=CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT=y
--kconfig_add=CONFIG_GCOV=y

Neither looks very appealing to me, so I've just kept it as-is for now.

Maybe there's something we can do to make this easier (e.g. allowing
--kunitconfig to be repeated and mergable)?