Re: [PATCH v4 06/15] fs,fork,exit: export symbols necessary for KUnit UAPI support

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 10:39:57AM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Let's take kernel_execve() as example, there is no way around using this
> function in one way or another. It only has two existing callers.
> init/main.c: It is completely unsuitable for this usecase.
> kernel/umh.c: It is also what Al suggested and I am all for it.
> Unfortunately it is missing features. Citation from my response to Al:

But why does the code that calls it need to be modular?  I get why
the actual test cases should be modular, but the core test runner is
small and needs a lot of kernel internals.  Just require it to be
built-in and all this mess goes away.

That being said some of this stuff, like get_fs_type / put_filesystem
or replace_fd seem like the wrong level of abstractions for something
running tests anyway.