kunit: Add APIs for managing devices

Tests for drivers often require a struct device to pass to other
functions. While it's possible to create these with
root_device_register(), or to use something like a platform device, this
is both a misuse of those APIs, and can be difficult to clean up after,
for example, a failed assertion.

Add some KUnit-specific functions for registering and unregistering a
struct device:
- kunit_device_register()
- kunit_device_register_with_driver()
- kunit_device_unregister()

These helpers allocate a on a 'kunit' bus which will either probe the
driver passed in (kunit_device_register_with_driver), or will create a
stub driver (kunit_device_register) which is cleaned up on test shutdown.

Devices are automatically unregistered on test shutdown, but can be
manually unregistered earlier with kunit_device_unregister() in order
to, for example, test device release code.

Reviewed-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

2 files changed, 59 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/api/resource.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/api/resource.rst
index 0a94f831259e..ec6002a6b0db 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/api/resource.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/api/resource.rst
@@ -11,3 +11,12 @@ state on a per-test basis, register custom cleanup actions, and more.
 
 .. kernel-doc:: include/kunit/resource.h
    :internal:
+
+Managed Devices
+---------------
+
+Functions for using KUnit-managed struct device and struct device_driver.
+Include ``kunit/device.h`` to use these.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/kunit/device.h
+   :internal:
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
index 9db12e91668e..53c6f7dc8a42 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
@@ -797,3 +797,53 @@ structures as shown below:
 KUnit is not enabled, or if no test is running in the current task, it will do
 nothing. This compiles down to either a no-op or a static key check, so will
 have a negligible performance impact when no test is running.
+
+Managing Fake Devices and Drivers
+---------------------------------
+
+When testing drivers or code which interacts with drivers, many functions will
+require a ``struct device`` or ``struct device_driver``. In many cases, setting
+up a real device is not required to test any given function, so a fake device
+can be used instead.
+
+KUnit provides helper functions to create and manage these fake devices, which
+are internally of type ``struct kunit_device``, and are attached to a special
+``kunit_bus``. These devices support managed device resources (devres), as
+described in Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst
+
+To create a KUnit-managed ``struct device_driver``, use ``kunit_driver_create()``,
+which will create a driver with the given name, on the ``kunit_bus``. This driver
+will automatically be destroyed when the corresponding test finishes, but can also
+be manually destroyed with ``driver_unregister()``.
+
+To create a fake device, use the ``kunit_device_register()``, which will create
+and register a device, using a new KUnit-managed driver created with ``kunit_driver_create()``.
+To provide a specific, non-KUnit-managed driver, use ``kunit_device_register_with_driver()``
+instead. Like with managed drivers, KUnit-managed fake devices are automatically
+cleaned up when the test finishes, but can be manually cleaned up early with
+``kunit_device_unregister()``.
+
+The KUnit devices should be used in preference to ``root_device_register()``, and
+instead of ``platform_device_register()`` in cases where the device is not otherwise
+a platform device.
+
+For example:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	#include <kunit/device.h>
+
+	static void test_my_device(struct kunit *test)
+	{
+		struct device *fake_device;
+		const char *dev_managed_string;
+
+		// Create a fake device.
+		fake_device = kunit_device_register(test, "my_device");
+		KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, fake_device)
+
+		// Pass it to functions which need a device.
+		dev_managed_string = devm_kstrdup(fake_device, "Hello, World!");
+
+		// Everything is cleaned up automatically when the test ends.
+	}
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