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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/running_tips.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/running_tips.rst index 7d99386cf94a..30d2147eb5b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/running_tips.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/running_tips.rst @@ -80,25 +80,23 @@ file ``.kunitconfig``, you can just pass in the dir, e.g. automagically, but tests could theoretically depend on incompatible options, so handling that would be tricky. +Setting kernel commandline parameters +------------------------------------- + +You can use ``--kernel_args`` to pass arbitrary kernel arguments, e.g. + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --kernel_args=param=42 --kernel_args=param2=false + + Generating code coverage reports under UML ------------------------------------------ .. note:: TODO(brendanhiggins@google.com): There are various issues with UML and versions of gcc 7 and up. You're likely to run into missing ``.gcda`` - files or compile errors. We know one `faulty GCC commit - <https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/8c9434c2f9358b8b8bad2c1990edf10a21645f9d>`_ - but not how we'd go about getting this fixed. The compile errors still - need some investigation. - -.. note:: - TODO(brendanhiggins@google.com): for recent versions of Linux - (5.10-5.12, maybe earlier), there's a bug with gcov counters not being - flushed in UML. This translates to very low (<1%) reported coverage. This is - related to the above issue and can be worked around by replacing the - one call to ``uml_abort()`` (it's in ``os_dump_core()``) with a plain - ``exit()``. - + files or compile errors. This is different from the "normal" way of getting coverage information that is documented in Documentation/dev-tools/gcov.rst. |