Commit c63d2dd7 authored by David Gow's avatar David Gow Committed by Shuah Khan
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Documentation: kunit: Add some troubleshooting tips to the FAQ

Add an FAQ entry to the KUnit documentation with some tips for
troubleshooting KUnit and kunit_tool.

These suggestions largely came from an email thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/41db8bbd-3ba0-8bde-7352-083bf4b947ff@intel.com/T/#m23213d4e156db6d59b0b460a9014950f5ff6eb03



Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBrendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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  kernel by installing a production configuration of the kernel on production
  hardware with a production userspace and then trying to exercise some behavior
  that depends on interactions between the hardware, the kernel, and userspace.

KUnit isn't working, what should I do?
======================================

Unfortunately, there are a number of things which can break, but here are some
things to try.

1. Try running ``./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run`` with the ``--raw_output``
   parameter. This might show details or error messages hidden by the kunit_tool
   parser.
2. Instead of running ``kunit.py run``, try running ``kunit.py config``,
   ``kunit.py build``, and ``kunit.py exec`` independently. This can help track
   down where an issue is occurring. (If you think the parser is at fault, you
   can run it manually against stdin or a file with ``kunit.py parse``.)
3. Running the UML kernel directly can often reveal issues or error messages
   kunit_tool ignores. This should be as simple as running ``./vmlinux`` after
   building the UML kernel (e.g., by using ``kunit.py build``). Note that UML
   has some unusual requirements (such as the host having a tmpfs filesystem
   mounted), and has had issues in the past when built statically and the host
   has KASLR enabled. (On older host kernels, you may need to run ``setarch
   `uname -m` -R ./vmlinux`` to disable KASLR.)
4. Make sure the kernel .config has ``CONFIG_KUNIT=y`` and at least one test
   (e.g. ``CONFIG_KUNIT_EXAMPLE_TEST=y``). kunit_tool will keep its .config
   around, so you can see what config was used after running ``kunit.py run``.
   It also preserves any config changes you might make, so you can
   enable/disable things with ``make ARCH=um menuconfig`` or similar, and then
   re-run kunit_tool.
5. Try to run ``make ARCH=um defconfig`` before running ``kunit.py run``. This
   may help clean up any residual config items which could be causing problems.
6. Finally, try running KUnit outside UML. KUnit and KUnit tests can run be
   built into any kernel, or can be built as a module and loaded at runtime.
   Doing so should allow you to determine if UML is causing the issue you're
   seeing. When tests are built-in, they will execute when the kernel boots, and
   modules will automatically execute associated tests when loaded. Test results
   can be collected from ``/sys/kernel/debug/kunit/<test suite>/results``, and
   can be parsed with ``kunit.py parse``. For more details, see "KUnit on
   non-UML architectures" in :doc:`usage`.

If none of the above tricks help, you are always welcome to email any issues to
kunit-dev@googlegroups.com.