Enhance the static analysis tools section with a discussion on when to
use each of them.
This was mainly taken from Dan Carpenter and Julia Lawall's comments on
a previous documentation patch for static analysis tools.
Lore: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20220329090911.GX3293@kadam/T/#mb97770c8e938095aadc3ee08f4ac7fe32ae386e6
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Schmitt <marcelo.schmitt1@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Complement the Kernel Testing Guide documentation page by adding a
section about static analysis tools.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Schmitt <marcelo.schmitt1@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The kernel now has a number of testing and debugging tools, and we've
seen a bit of confusion about what the differences between them are.
Add a basic documentation outlining the testing tools, when to use each,
and how they interact.
This is a pretty quick overview rather than the idealised "kernel
testing guide" that'd probably be optimal, but given the number of times
questions like "When do you use KUnit and when do you use Kselftest?"
are being asked, it seemed worth at least having something. Hopefully
this can form the basis for more detailed documentation later.
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210415054036.581117-1-davidgow@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Marcelo Schmitt