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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 4/4] lib: test_bitmap: add bitmap_print_to_buf test cases
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:48 PM Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 03:09:39PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:58:56PM +1200, Barry Song wrote:
> > > The added test items cover both cases where bitmap buf of the printed
> > > result is greater than and less than 4KB.
> > > And it also covers the case where offset for bitmap_print_to_buf is
> > > non-zero which will happen when printed buf is larger than one page
> > > in sysfs bin_attribute.
> >
> > More test cases is always a good thing, thanks!
>
> Generally yes. But in this case... I believe, Barry didn't write that
> huge line below by himself. Most probably he copy-pasted the output of
> his bitmap_print_buf() into the test. If so, this code tests nothing,
> and just enforces current behavior of snprintf.

I'm not sure I got what you are telling me. The big line is to test
strings that are bigger than 4k.

...

> > > +static const char large_list[] __initconst = /* more than 4KB */
> > > + "0,4,8,12,16,20,24,28,32-33,36-37,40-41,44-45,48-49,52-53,56-57,60-61,64,68,72,76,80,84,88,92,96-97,100-101,104-1"
> > > + "05,108-109,112-113,116-117,120-121,124-125,128,132,136,140,144,148,152,156,160-161,164-165,168-169,172-173,176-1"
> > > + "77,180-181,184-185,188-189,192,196,200,204,208,212,216,220,224-225,228-229,232-233,236-237,240-241,244-245,248-2"
>
> I don't like this behavior of the code: each individual line is not a
> valid bitmap_list. I would prefer to split original bitmap and print
> list representation of parts in a compatible format; considering a
> receiving part of this splitting machinery.

I agree that split is not the best here, but after all it's only 1
line and this is on purpose.

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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