Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] kunit: tool: fix running kunit_tool from outside kernel tree

[Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 10:45 PM David Gow <davidgow@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 9:17 AM Brendan Higgins
> <brendanhiggins@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Currently kunit_tool does not work correctly when executed from a path
> > outside of the kernel tree, so make sure that the current working
> > directory is correct and the kunit_dir is properly initialized before
> > running.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
> > ---
> >  tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
> > index 425ef40067e7..96344a11ff1f 100755
> > --- a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
> > +++ b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
> > @@ -237,9 +237,14 @@ def main(argv, linux=None):
> >
> >         cli_args = parser.parse_args(argv)
> >
> > +       if get_kernel_root_path():
> > +               print('cd ' + get_kernel_root_path())
> Do we want to print this, or is it a leftover debug statement?

Whoops, I was supposed to delete that. That's embarrassing... ^_^;

> > +               os.chdir(get_kernel_root_path())
> > +
> >         if cli_args.subcommand == 'run':
> >                 if not os.path.exists(cli_args.build_dir):
> >                         os.mkdir(cli_args.build_dir)
> > +                       create_default_kunitconfig()
> Why are we adding this everywhere when it's already in config_tests,
> which should already be called in all of the places where a
> kunitconfig is required?

Ah yes, .kunitconfig needs to be created before config_tests() can be
called because the LinuxSourceTree constructor needs .kunitconfig to
exist.

> Is the goal to always copy the default kunitconfig when creating a new
> build_dir? While I can sort-of see why we might want to do that, if
> the build dir doesn't exist, most of the subcommands will fail anyway
> (maybe we should only create the build-dir for 'config' and 'run'?)

I just did it because we were getting a failure in a constructor so we
couldn't do much. Ideally we would check that the current state allows
for the command that the user intended to run, but I think that's
beyond the scope of this change.

So I guess the real question is: Is it okay for it to crash in the
constructor with a cryptic error message for now, or do we want to let
it fail with a slightly less cryptic message later?

> >                 if not linux:
> >                         linux = kunit_kernel.LinuxSourceTree()
> > @@ -257,6 +262,7 @@ def main(argv, linux=None):
> >                 if cli_args.build_dir:
> >                         if not os.path.exists(cli_args.build_dir):
> >                                 os.mkdir(cli_args.build_dir)
> > +                               create_default_kunitconfig()
> >
> >                 if not linux:
> >                         linux = kunit_kernel.LinuxSourceTree()
> > @@ -273,6 +279,7 @@ def main(argv, linux=None):
> >                 if cli_args.build_dir:
> >                         if not os.path.exists(cli_args.build_dir):
> >                                 os.mkdir(cli_args.build_dir)
> > +                               create_default_kunitconfig()
> >
> >                 if not linux:
> >                         linux = kunit_kernel.LinuxSourceTree()
> > @@ -291,6 +298,7 @@ def main(argv, linux=None):
> >                 if cli_args.build_dir:
> >                         if not os.path.exists(cli_args.build_dir):
> >                                 os.mkdir(cli_args.build_dir)
> > +                               create_default_kunitconfig()
> >
> >                 if not linux:
> >                         linux = kunit_kernel.LinuxSourceTree()
> >
> > base-commit: 30185b69a2d533c4ba6ca926b8390ce7de495e29
> > --
> > 2.28.0.236.gb10cc79966-goog
> >