Le 20/04/2026 à 8:28 PM, Albert Esteve a écrit :
From: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Document API functions for suppressing warning backtraces.
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Carminati <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Albert Esteve <[email protected]>
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Thanks -- it's always good to have documentation.
Apart from one note below, this looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: David Gow <[email protected]>
Cheers,
-- David
Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
index ebd06f5ea4550..76e85412f240e 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
@@ -157,6 +157,34 @@ Alternatively, one can take full control over the error
message by using
if (some_setup_function())
KUNIT_FAIL(test, "Failed to setup thing for testing");
+Suppressing warning backtraces
+------------------------------
+
+Some unit tests trigger warning backtraces either intentionally or as side
+effect. Such backtraces are normally undesirable since they distract from
+the actual test and may result in the impression that there is a problem.
+
+Such backtraces can be suppressed with **task scope suppression**: while
+``START`` / ``END`` is active on the current task, the backtrace and stack
+dump from warnings on that task are suppressed. Wrap the call from your test
+in that window, like shown in the following code.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ static void some_test(struct kunit *test)
+ {
+ KUNIT_START_SUPPRESSED_WARNING(test);
+ trigger_backtrace();
+ KUNIT_END_SUPPRESSED_WARNING(test);
+ }
+
+``KUNIT_SUPPRESSED_WARNING_COUNT()`` returns the number of suppressed
backtraces.
+If the suppressed backtrace was triggered on purpose, this can be used to check
+if the backtrace was actually triggered.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, KUNIT_SUPPRESSED_WARNING_COUNT(), 1);
It might be worth noting that all of these must be in the same function,
and the KUNIT_START_SUPPRESSED_WARNING() must be first. (And, in
addition, there can't be more than one START/END pair per-function).
Of course, if the implementation is changed, that wouldn't be necessary. :-)
Test Suites
~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -1211,4 +1239,4 @@ For example:
dev_managed_string = devm_kstrdup(fake_device, "Hello, World!");
// Everything is cleaned up automatically when the test ends.
- }
\ No newline at end of file
+ }
