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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 kunit-next 0/2] kunit: extend kunit resources API
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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