Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] kunit: flatten kunit_suite*** to kunit_suite** in .kunit_test_suites

[Brendan Higgins]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 1:10 AM 'David Gow' via KUnit Development
<kunit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We currently store kunit suites in the .kunit_test_suites ELF section as
> a `struct kunit_suite***` (modulo some `const`s).
> For every test file, we store a struct kunit_suite** NULL-terminated array.
>
> This adds quite a bit of complexity to the test filtering code in the
> executor.
>
> Instead, let's just make the .kunit_test_suites section contain a single
> giant array of struct kunit_suite pointers, which can then be directly
> manipulated. This array is not NULL-terminated, and so none of the test
> filtering code needs to NULL-terminate anything.
>
> Tested-by: Maíra Canal <maira.canal@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>