Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 kunit-next 0/2] kunit: extend kunit resources API | From | Shuah Khan <> | Date | Tue, 9 Jun 2020 14:25:05 -0600 |
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On 6/5/20 3:20 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 2:46 PM Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> wrote: >> >> A recent RFC patch set [1] suggests some additional functionality >> may be needed around kunit resources. It seems to require >> >> 1. support for resources without allocation >> 2. support for lookup of such resources >> 3. support for access to resources across multiple kernel threads >> >> The proposed changes here are designed to address these needs. >> The idea is we first generalize the API to support adding >> resources with static data; then from there we support named >> resources. The latter support is needed because if we are >> in a different thread context and only have the "struct kunit *" >> to work with, we need a way to identify a resource in lookup. >> >> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/26/1286 >> >> Changes since v3: >> - removed unused "init" field from "struct kunit_resources" (Brendan) > > Shuah, it looks like you haven't sent a PR to Linus yet. Would you > mind picking this up for 5.8? >
Applied to linux-kselftest kunit branch for second update for Linux 5.8-rc1
thanks, -- Shuah
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