[PATCH v5 4/4] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-selftests: Use KUnit

[Mostafa Saleh]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 11:13:12AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 01:04:49PM +0000, Mostafa Saleh wrote:
> 
> > Is simple enough and verbose and can distinguished from test failures,
> > it will look like:
> > [    2.095812]     ok 1 arm_lpae_do_selftests # SKIP Failed to allocated device!
>                    ^^^^^
> 
> The test "passed" though, and since we never expect this failure it
> seems wrong to make it pass.
> 
> I think there is no point in distinguishing "infrastructure" from
> anything else. Either the test runs to completion and does everything,
> or it fails.
> 
> The use of skip is for things where we probe something and detect we
> can't run the test. Like maybe you have a test that relies on
> PAGE_SIZE=4096, or CONFIG_XX so skip other systems.
> 
> While, "I hit an OOM so I skip the test" seems wrong to me. Maybe the
> OOM was caused by the "unit under test" leaking memory??

I see, both are fine with me, it seems the kunit maintainer is more
inclined twords the failure approach [1].

So, I can keep the test failing, is it OK Robin?

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABVgOS=NfRcXYzJVMMKqeXP8SyTewffwb7vdGN1D8esO2f0KOA@mail.gmail.com/

Thanks,
Mostafa

> 
> Jason