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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+============================
+Tips For Writing KUnit Tests
+============================
+
+Exiting early on failed expectations
+------------------------------------
+
+``KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ`` and friends will mark the test as failed and continue
+execution.  In some cases, it's unsafe to continue and you can use the
+``KUNIT_ASSERT`` variant to exit on failure.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	void example_test_user_alloc_function(struct kunit *test)
+	{
+		void *object = alloc_some_object_for_me();
+
+		/* Make sure we got a valid pointer back. */
+		KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, object);
+		do_something_with_object(object);
+	}
+
+Allocating memory
+-----------------
+
+Where you would use ``kzalloc``, you should prefer ``kunit_kzalloc`` instead.
+KUnit will ensure the memory is freed once the test completes.
+
+This is particularly useful since it lets you use the ``KUNIT_ASSERT_EQ``
+macros to exit early from a test without having to worry about remembering to
+call ``kfree``.
+
+Example:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	void example_test_allocation(struct kunit *test)
+	{
+		char *buffer = kunit_kzalloc(test, 16, GFP_KERNEL);
+		/* Ensure allocation succeeded. */
+		KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, buffer);
+
+		KUNIT_ASSERT_STREQ(test, buffer, "");
+	}
+
+
+Testing static functions
+------------------------
+
+If you don't want to expose functions or variables just for testing, one option
+is to conditionally ``#include`` the test file at the end of your .c file, e.g.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	/* In my_file.c */
+
+	static int do_interesting_thing();
+
+	#ifdef CONFIG_MY_KUNIT_TEST
+	#include "my_kunit_test.c"
+	#endif
+
+Injecting test-only code
+------------------------
+
+Similarly to the above, it can be useful to add test-specific logic.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	/* In my_file.h */
+
+	#ifdef CONFIG_MY_KUNIT_TEST
+	/* Defined in my_kunit_test.c */
+	void test_only_hook(void);
+	#else
+	void test_only_hook(void) { }
+	#endif
+
+This test-only code can be made more useful by accessing the current kunit
+test, see below.
+
+Accessing the current test
+--------------------------
+
+In some cases, you need to call test-only code from outside the test file, e.g.
+like in the example above or if you're providing a fake implementation of an
+ops struct.
+There is a ``kunit_test`` field in ``task_struct``, so you can access it via
+``current->kunit_test``.
+
+Here's a slightly in-depth example of how one could implement "mocking":
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	#include <linux/sched.h> /* for current */
+
+	struct test_data {
+		int foo_result;
+		int want_foo_called_with;
+	};
+
+	static int fake_foo(int arg)
+	{
+		struct kunit *test = current->kunit_test;
+		struct test_data *test_data = test->priv;
+
+		KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, test_data->want_foo_called_with, arg);
+		return test_data->foo_result;
+	}
+
+	static void example_simple_test(struct kunit *test)
+	{
+		/* Assume priv is allocated in the suite's .init */
+		struct test_data *test_data = test->priv;
+
+		test_data->foo_result = 42;
+		test_data->want_foo_called_with = 1;
+
+		/* In a real test, we'd probably pass a pointer to fake_foo somewhere
+		 * like an ops struct, etc. instead of calling it directly. */
+		KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, fake_foo(1), 42);
+	}
+
+
+Note: here we're able to get away with using ``test->priv``, but if you wanted
+something more flexible you could use a named ``kunit_resource``, see
+Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/api/test.rst.
+
+Failing the current test
+------------------------
+
+But sometimes, you might just want to fail the current test. In that case, we
+have ``kunit_fail_current_test(fmt, args...)`` which is defined in ``<kunit/test-bug.h>`` and
+doesn't require pulling in ``<kunit/test.h>``.
+
+E.g. say we had an option to enable some extra debug checks on some data structure:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	#include <kunit/test-bug.h>
+
+	#ifdef CONFIG_EXTRA_DEBUG_CHECKS
+	static void validate_my_data(struct data *data)
+	{
+		if (is_valid(data))
+			return;
+
+		kunit_fail_current_test("data %p is invalid", data);
+
+		/* Normal, non-KUnit, error reporting code here. */
+	}
+	#else
+	static void my_debug_function(void) { }
+	#endif
+
+
+Customizing error messages
+--------------------------
+
+Each of the ``KUNIT_EXPECT`` and ``KUNIT_ASSERT`` macros have a ``_MSG`` variant.
+These take a format string and arguments to provide additional context to the automatically generated error messages.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	char some_str[41];
+	generate_sha1_hex_string(some_str);
+
+	/* Before. Not easy to tell why the test failed. */
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, strlen(some_str), 40);
+
+	/* After. Now we see the offending string. */
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ_MSG(test, strlen(some_str), 40, "some_str='%s'", some_str);
+
+Alternatively, one can take full control over the error message by using ``KUNIT_FAIL()``, e.g.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	/* Before */
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, some_setup_function(), 0);
+
+	/* After: full control over the failure message. */
+	if (some_setup_function())
+		KUNIT_FAIL(test, "Failed to setup thing for testing");
+
+Next Steps
+==========
+*   Optional: see the Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst page for a more
+    in-depth explanation of KUnit.