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On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 11:31 AM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com> wrote: > > # Background > KUnit currently lacks any first-class support for mocking. > For an overview and discussion on the pros and cons, see > https://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html > > This patch set introduces the basic machinery needed for mocking: > setting and validating expectations, setting default actions, etc. > > Using that basic infrastructure, we add macros for "class mocking", as > it's probably the easiest type of mocking to start with. > > ## Class mocking > > By "class mocking", we're referring mocking out function pointers stored > in structs like: > struct sender { > int (*send)(struct sender *sender, int data); > }; Discussed this offline a bit with Brendan and David. The requirement that the first argument is a `sender *` means this doesn't work for a few common cases. E.g. ops structs don't usually have funcs that take `XXX_ops *` `pci_ops` all take a `struct pci_bus *`, which at least contains a `struct pci_ops*`. Why does this matter? We need to stash a `struct mock` somewhere to store expectations. For this version of class mocking (in patch 10), we've assumed we could have struct MOCK(sender) { struct mock ctrl; struct sender trgt; //&trgt assumed to be the first param } Then we can always use `container_of(sender)` to get the MOCK(sender) which holds `ctrl`. But if the first parameter isn't a `struct sender*`, this trick obviously doesn't work. So to support something like pci_ops, we'd need another approach to stash `ctrl`. After thinking a bit more, we could perhaps decouple the first param from the mocked struct. Using pci_ops as the example: struct MOCK(pci_ops) { struct mock ctrl; struct pci_bus *self; // this is the first param. Using python terminology here. struct pci_ops trgt; // continue to store this, as this holds the function pointers } // Name of this func is currently based on the class we're mocking static inline struct mock *from_pci_ops_to_mock( const struct pci_bus *self) { return mock_get_ctrl(container_of(self, struct MOCK(pci_ops), self)); } // then in tests, we'd need something like struct pci_bus bus; bus.ops = mock_get_trgt(mock_ops); mock_ops.self = &bus; Do others have thoughts/opinions? After grepping around for examples, I'm struck by how the number of outliers there are. E.g. most take a `struct thing *` as the first param, but cfspi_ifc in caif_spi.h opts to take that as the last parameter. And others take a different mix of structs for each function. But it feels like a decoupled self / struct-holding-func-pointers approach should be generic enough, as far as I can tell. The more exotic types will probably have to remain unsupported. > > After the necessary DEFINE_* macros, we can then write code like > struct MOCK(sender) mock_sender = CONSTRUCT_MOCK(sender, test); > > /* Fake an error for a specific input. */ > handle = KUNIT_EXPECT_CALL(send(<omitted>, kunit_int_eq(42))); > handle->action = kunit_int_return(test, -EINVAL); > > /* Pass the mocked object to some code under test. */ > KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, -EINVAL, send_message(...)); > > I.e. the goal is to make it easier to test > 1) with less dependencies (we don't need to setup a real `sender`) > 2) unusual/error conditions more easily. > > In the future, we hope to build upon this to support mocking in more > contexts, e.g. standalone funcs, etc. > > # TODOs > > ## Naming > This introduces a number of new macros for dealing with mocks, > e.g: > DEFINE_STRUCT_CLASS_MOCK(METHOD(foo), CLASS(example), > RETURNS(int), > PARAMS(struct example *, int)); > ... > KUNIT_EXPECT_CALL(foo(mock_get_ctrl(mock_example), ...); > For consistency, we could prefix everything with KUNIT, e.g. > `KUNIT_DEFINE_STRUCT_CLASS_MOCK` and `kunit_mock_get_ctrl`, but it feels > like the names might be long enough that they would hinder readability. > > ## Usage > For now the only use of class mocking is in kunit-example-test.c > As part of changing this from an RFC to a real patch set, we're hoping > to include at least one example. > > Pointers to bits of code where this would be useful that aren't too > hairy would be appreciated. > E.g. could easily add a test for tools/perf/ui/progress.h, e.g. that > ui_progress__init() calls ui_progress_ops.init(), but that likely isn't > useful to anyone. > > > Brendan Higgins (9): > kunit: test: add kunit_stream a std::stream like logger > kunit: test: add concept of post conditions > checkpatch: add support for struct MOCK(foo) syntax > kunit: mock: add parameter list manipulation macros > kunit: mock: add internal mock infrastructure > kunit: mock: add basic matchers and actions > kunit: mock: add class mocking support > kunit: mock: add struct param matcher > kunit: mock: implement nice, strict and naggy mock distinctions > > Daniel Latypov (2): > Revert "kunit: move string-stream.h to lib/kunit" > kunit: expose kunit_set_failure() for use by mocking > > Marcelo Schmitt (1): > kunit: mock: add macro machinery to pick correct format args > > include/kunit/assert.h | 3 +- > include/kunit/kunit-stream.h | 94 +++ > include/kunit/mock.h | 902 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/kunit/params.h | 305 +++++++++ > {lib => include}/kunit/string-stream.h | 2 + > include/kunit/test.h | 9 + > lib/kunit/Makefile | 9 +- > lib/kunit/assert.c | 2 - > lib/kunit/common-mocks.c | 409 +++++++++++ > lib/kunit/kunit-example-test.c | 90 +++ > lib/kunit/kunit-stream.c | 110 +++ > lib/kunit/mock-macro-test.c | 241 +++++++ > lib/kunit/mock-test.c | 531 +++++++++++++++ > lib/kunit/mock.c | 370 ++++++++++ > lib/kunit/string-stream-test.c | 3 +- > lib/kunit/string-stream.c | 5 +- > lib/kunit/test.c | 15 +- > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 + > 18 files changed, 3091 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 include/kunit/kunit-stream.h > create mode 100644 include/kunit/mock.h > create mode 100644 include/kunit/params.h > rename {lib => include}/kunit/string-stream.h (95%) > create mode 100644 lib/kunit/common-mocks.c > create mode 100644 lib/kunit/kunit-stream.c > create mode 100644 lib/kunit/mock-macro-test.c > create mode 100644 lib/kunit/mock-test.c > create mode 100644 lib/kunit/mock.c > > > base-commit: 10b82d5176488acee2820e5a2cf0f2ec5c3488b6 > -- > 2.28.0.681.g6f77f65b4e-goog >
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 5:24 PM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 11:31 AM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com> wrote: > > > > # Background > > KUnit currently lacks any first-class support for mocking. > > For an overview and discussion on the pros and cons, see > > https://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html > > > > This patch set introduces the basic machinery needed for mocking: > > setting and validating expectations, setting default actions, etc. > > > > Using that basic infrastructure, we add macros for "class mocking", as > > it's probably the easiest type of mocking to start with. > > > > ## Class mocking > > > > By "class mocking", we're referring mocking out function pointers stored > > in structs like: > > struct sender { > > int (*send)(struct sender *sender, int data); > > }; > > Discussed this offline a bit with Brendan and David. > The requirement that the first argument is a `sender *` means this > doesn't work for a few common cases. > > E.g. ops structs don't usually have funcs that take `XXX_ops *` > `pci_ops` all take a `struct pci_bus *`, which at least contains a > `struct pci_ops*`. > > Why does this matter? > We need to stash a `struct mock` somewhere to store expectations. > For this version of class mocking (in patch 10), we've assumed we could have > > struct MOCK(sender) { > struct mock ctrl; > struct sender trgt; //&trgt assumed to be the first param > } > > Then we can always use `container_of(sender)` to get the MOCK(sender) > which holds `ctrl`. > But if the first parameter isn't a `struct sender*`, this trick > obviously doesn't work. > > So to support something like pci_ops, we'd need another approach to > stash `ctrl`. > > After thinking a bit more, we could perhaps decouple the first param > from the mocked struct. > Using pci_ops as the example: > > struct MOCK(pci_ops) { > struct mock ctrl; > struct pci_bus *self; // this is the first param. Using > python terminology here. > struct pci_ops trgt; // continue to store this, as this holds > the function pointers > } > > // Name of this func is currently based on the class we're mocking > static inline struct mock *from_pci_ops_to_mock( > const struct pci_bus *self) > { > return mock_get_ctrl(container_of(self, struct MOCK(pci_ops), self)); > } > > // then in tests, we'd need something like > struct pci_bus bus; > bus.ops = mock_get_trgt(mock_ops); > mock_ops.self = &bus; > > Do others have thoughts/opinions? In the above example, wouldn't we actually want to mock struct pci_bus, not struct pci_ops? I think pci_bus is what actually gets implemented. Consider the Rockchip PCIe host controller: Rockchip provides it's own pci_ops struct: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c#L256 If you look at one of the implemented methods, say rockchip_pcie_rd_conf(), you will see: ... struct rockchip_pcie *rockchip = bus->sysdata; ... (This function signature is: int (*read)(struct pci_bus *bus, unsigned int devfn, int where, int size, u32 *val); ). Thus, conceptually struct pci_bus is what is being manipulated; it best fits the candidate for the *self pointer. In fact - if I am not mistaken - I think if you were to mock pci_bus and just pretend that the methods were on pci_bus, not pci_ops, I think it might just work. The bigger problem is that it seems pci_bus does not want the user to allocate it: in the case of rockchip_pcie, it is allocated by devm_pci_alloc_host_bridge(). Thus, embedding pci_bus inside of a MOCK(pci_bus) would probably not work, so you would need to have different tooling around that and would then need to provide a custom definition of from_pci_bus_to_mock() (generated by DECLARE_STRUCT_CLASS_MOCK_CONVERTER()). > After grepping around for examples, I'm struck by how the number of > outliers there are. > E.g. most take a `struct thing *` as the first param, but cfspi_ifc in > caif_spi.h opts to take that as the last parameter. That's not a problem, just use the DECLARE_STRUCT_CLASS_MOCK_HANDLE_INDEX() variant to create your mock (as opposed to DECLARE_STRUCT_CLASS_MOCK()). For example let's say you have the following struct that you want to mock: struct example { ... int (*foo)(int bar, char baz, struct example *self); }; You could mock the function with: DECLARE_STRUCT_CLASS_MOCK_HANDLE_INDEX( METHOD(foo), CLASS(example), 2, /* The "handle" is in position 2. */ RETURNS(int), PARAMS(int, char, struct example *)); > And others take a different mix of structs for each function. > > But it feels like a decoupled self / struct-holding-func-pointers > approach should be generic enough, as far as I can tell. > The more exotic types will probably have to remain unsupported. I think the code is pretty much here to handle any situation in which one of the parameters input to the function can be used to look up a mock object; we just need to expose the from_<class>_to_mock() function to the user to override. The problem I see with what we have now is the assumption that the user gets to create the object that they want to mock. Your example has illustrated that that is not a safe assumption. But yes, sufficiently exoctic cases will have to be unsupported. BTW, sorry for not sharing the above in our offline discussion; since we were talking without concrete examples in front of us, the problem sounded worse than it looks here. [...]
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 4:24 PM Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 5:24 PM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 11:31 AM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com> wrote: > > > > > > # Background > > > KUnit currently lacks any first-class support for mocking. > > > For an overview and discussion on the pros and cons, see > > > https://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html > > > > > > This patch set introduces the basic machinery needed for mocking: > > > setting and validating expectations, setting default actions, etc. > > > > > > Using that basic infrastructure, we add macros for "class mocking", as > > > it's probably the easiest type of mocking to start with. > > > > > > ## Class mocking > > > > > > By "class mocking", we're referring mocking out function pointers stored > > > in structs like: > > > struct sender { > > > int (*send)(struct sender *sender, int data); > > > }; > > > > Discussed this offline a bit with Brendan and David. > > The requirement that the first argument is a `sender *` means this > > doesn't work for a few common cases. > > > > E.g. ops structs don't usually have funcs that take `XXX_ops *` > > `pci_ops` all take a `struct pci_bus *`, which at least contains a > > `struct pci_ops*`. > > > > Why does this matter? > > We need to stash a `struct mock` somewhere to store expectations. > > For this version of class mocking (in patch 10), we've assumed we could have > > > > struct MOCK(sender) { > > struct mock ctrl; > > struct sender trgt; //&trgt assumed to be the first param > > } > > > > Then we can always use `container_of(sender)` to get the MOCK(sender) > > which holds `ctrl`. > > But if the first parameter isn't a `struct sender*`, this trick > > obviously doesn't work. > > > > So to support something like pci_ops, we'd need another approach to > > stash `ctrl`. > > > > After thinking a bit more, we could perhaps decouple the first param > > from the mocked struct. > > Using pci_ops as the example: > > > > struct MOCK(pci_ops) { > > struct mock ctrl; > > struct pci_bus *self; // this is the first param. Using > > python terminology here. > > struct pci_ops trgt; // continue to store this, as this holds > > the function pointers > > } > > > > // Name of this func is currently based on the class we're mocking > > static inline struct mock *from_pci_ops_to_mock( > > const struct pci_bus *self) > > { > > return mock_get_ctrl(container_of(self, struct MOCK(pci_ops), self)); > > } > > > > // then in tests, we'd need something like > > struct pci_bus bus; > > bus.ops = mock_get_trgt(mock_ops); > > mock_ops.self = &bus; > > > > Do others have thoughts/opinions? > > In the above example, wouldn't we actually want to mock struct > pci_bus, not struct pci_ops? > > I think pci_bus is what actually gets implemented. Consider the > Rockchip PCIe host controller: > > Rockchip provides it's own pci_ops struct: > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-host.c#L256 > > If you look at one of the implemented methods, say > rockchip_pcie_rd_conf(), you will see: > > ... > struct rockchip_pcie *rockchip = bus->sysdata; > ... > (This function signature is: > > int (*read)(struct pci_bus *bus, unsigned int devfn, int where, int > size, u32 *val); > > ). > > Thus, conceptually struct pci_bus is what is being manipulated; it > best fits the candidate for the *self pointer. > > In fact - if I am not mistaken - I think if you were to mock pci_bus > and just pretend that the methods were on pci_bus, not pci_ops, I > think it might just work. It works with this code as-is, yes. But messing around with it, it seems like it might be helpful for the mock init funcs access to `struct kunit *test` in case they want to allocate. E.g. in cases where the ops struct points to a shared instance. We'd want to allocate a new ops struct so we don't accidentally affect more objects than expected by altering global state. It's a simple enough change, i.e. diff --git a/include/kunit/mock.h b/include/kunit/mock.h index 955c4267d726..9006f0e492dc 100644 --- a/include/kunit/mock.h +++ b/include/kunit/mock.h @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ static inline bool is_naggy_mock(struct mock *mock) \ mock_init_ctrl(test, mock_get_ctrl(mock_obj)); \ \ - if (init_func(mock_obj)) \ + if (init_func(test, mock_obj)) \ return NULL; \ \ return mock_obj; \ diff --git a/lib/kunit/kunit-example-test.c b/lib/kunit/kunit-example-test.c index cd538cdb2a96..38c87f163d2f 100644 --- a/lib/kunit/kunit-example-test.c +++ b/lib/kunit/kunit-example-test.c @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ DEFINE_STRUCT_CLASS_MOCK(METHOD(foo), CLASS(example), * parent. In this example, all we have to do is populate the member functions * of the parent class with the mock versions we defined. */ -static int example_init(struct MOCK(example) *mock_example) +static int example_init(struct kunit *test, struct MOCK(example) *mock_example) { /* This is how you get a pointer to the parent class of a mock. */ struct example *example = mock_get_trgt(mock_example); > > The bigger problem is that it seems pci_bus does not want the user to > allocate it: in the case of rockchip_pcie, it is allocated by > devm_pci_alloc_host_bridge(). Thus, embedding pci_bus inside of a > MOCK(pci_bus) would probably not work, so you would need to have > different tooling around that and would then need to provide a custom > definition of from_pci_bus_to_mock() (generated by > DECLARE_STRUCT_CLASS_MOCK_CONVERTER()). Yeah, I'm still not sure about this. One approach would be to only support objects we can allocate and thus embed inside a wrapper MOCK(class) struct. Users would have to write a custom wrapper struct and from_<class>_to_mock() funcs for everything else. E.g. they'd write struct MOCK(pci_bus) { struct mock ctrl; struct pci_bus *bus; // normally, the macro would generate without * } static inline struct mock *from_pci_ops_to_mock( const struct pci_bus *self) { // let user provide magic logic to do this lookup struct MOCK(pci_bus) *mock = somehow_get_wrapper(pci_bus); return mock_get_ctrl(mock); } With the proposed change above to pass a `struct kunit *` to the init, we open the possibility of using a kunit_resource to store this mapping. Perhaps the conversion func could also be changed to take a `struct kunit *` as well? static int mock_pci_bus_init(struct kunit *test, struct MOCK(pci_bus) *mocked) { // somehow establish mapping kunit_add_named_resource(test, ....); } Given resources are looked up via a linear scan, perhaps we do something like create a single instance for each mocked type. E.g. we have a `map_pci_bus_to_mock` hashtable that either gets allocated or updated with each call? > > > After grepping around for examples, I'm struck by how the number of > > outliers there are. > > E.g. most take a `struct thing *` as the first param, but cfspi_ifc in > > caif_spi.h opts to take that as the last parameter. > > That's not a problem, just use the > DECLARE_STRUCT_CLASS_MOCK_HANDLE_INDEX() variant to create your mock > (as opposed to DECLARE_STRUCT_CLASS_MOCK()). Here's the function pointers void (*ss_cb) (bool assert, struct cfspi_ifc *ifc); void (*xfer_done_cb) (struct cfspi_ifc *ifc); So sadly that won't work (unless you only wanted to mock one of the funcs). But as we agree that we don't want to try and support everything, this is fine. > > For example let's say you have the following struct that you want to mock: > > struct example { > ... > int (*foo)(int bar, char baz, struct example *self); > }; > > You could mock the function with: > > DECLARE_STRUCT_CLASS_MOCK_HANDLE_INDEX( > METHOD(foo), CLASS(example), > 2, /* The "handle" is in position 2. */ > RETURNS(int), > PARAMS(int, char, struct example *)); > > > And others take a different mix of structs for each function. > > > > But it feels like a decoupled self / struct-holding-func-pointers > > approach should be generic enough, as far as I can tell. > > The more exotic types will probably have to remain unsupported. > > I think the code is pretty much here to handle any situation in which > one of the parameters input to the function can be used to look up a > mock object; we just need to expose the from_<class>_to_mock() > function to the user to override. The problem I see with what we have > now is the assumption that the user gets to create the object that > they want to mock. Your example has illustrated that that is not a > safe assumption. Agree. The code itself is more or less able to handle most of these use cases. Concern was more about how frequent + painful minor deviations from the current pattern would be. As noted above, I think allowing the mock init funcs to safely allocate a new ops struct if they want might be enough. For more exotic cases, users can write custom from_<class>_to_mock() funcs to handle a lot of cases. As long as the first argument to the mocked functions matches the first argument of _to_mock(), then it should all work out. > > But yes, sufficiently exoctic cases will have to be unsupported. > > BTW, sorry for not sharing the above in our offline discussion; since > we were talking without concrete examples in front of us, the problem > sounded worse than it looks here. > > [...]