Re: [RFC PATCH] kunit: flatten kunit_suite*** to kunit_suite** in executor

[Brendan Higgins]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 4:19 PM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 6:55 PM Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Resulting in the .kunit_test_suites section just being a set of
> > contiguous pointers to struct kunit_suite. We get the number of suites
> > from the section size.
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > That was my thinking, anyway. I think it probably makes sense to do that
> > cleanup after the section patch, as that means we don't need any
> > post-processing on the suites arrays.
>
> To be honest, I'm actually tempted to pay the cost of postprocessing
> and proposing a change like this for real.
> Going from kunit_suite*** to ** shaves off a lot of code from the unit
> test and the filtering code path.
>
> Specifically I'm thinking this can go into the kunit branch,
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest.git/?h=kunit
> Then when we have the series reworking modules, one of two things can happen.
> 1. if we get to kunit_suite** with null-terminated arrays, fixing the
> executor just means dropping the post-processing step.
> 2. If we get to kunit_suite* as mentioned above, then there'll be a
> bit more work, but not as much.
>
> Alternatively, I can wait and send you an updated version of this
> patch to include at the start of your series like
> PATCH 1/x: this patch with post-processing, using either * or **
> ...
> PATCH x/x: final rework, and drop the postprocessing
>
> It's just that the prospect of submitting a patch that reduces so much
> code makes me eager to try and get it submitted :)

I agree. Honestly, just changing the type signature from `struct
kunit_suite * const * const *` to `struct kunit_suite * const *` in
the suite_set struct sells me on this. I missed this before, but now
that I am aware of this, I would like to see it go in soon.

> Brendan and David seem ok with paying the bit of runtime overhead for
> post-processing, esp. if we time it so this patch lands in the same

I'm absolutely fine with it. We are nowhere near the point where that
matters at all.

> Linux release as the module rework.
> But I can hold off if it'll make your life more difficult.

Also agree. I am excited to see Jeremy's new module code. I don't want
to make his life any harder than it already is ;-)

> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > Jeremy