ASSERT_GT(9)

✨ ASSERT_GT(9) ✨

okay so real talk — the name line on this one is literally just ASSERT_GT with a big fat nothing after the dash 🫠 no description, no blurb, just vibes. bestie said "I'll let the macro speak for itself." iconic behavior honestly 👑

it lives in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's one of the kselftest harness assertion girlies 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ASSERT_GT (expected , seen );

that's it. that's the whole call. two args, no notes 🎀

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• expected — the expected value 💖 like, what you think the number should be, your hopes and dreams in variable form
• seen — the measured value 🌸 the actual reality, what the code actually coughed up

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

ASSERT_GT(expected, measured): expected > measured

so the whole entire personality of this macro is: it asserts that expected is greater than measured. no cap, that's the vibe check 💀

(note: the arg list up top calls the second one seen, and the description calls it measured — same girl, different wig. iykyk 🧚)

it's an assert, so it's the strict, no-take-backs, this must be true or we have a Problem flavor of check — that's the energy of an ASSERT_ in this family, and that's the difference between it and the EXPECT_ girlies in the SEE ALSO list below 👀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go read these next, they're all part of the same friend group 🫶

• Kernel file ./tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h example(9)
• TH_LOG(9)
• SKIP(9)
• TEST(9)
• TEST_SIGNAL(9)
• FIXTURE_DATA(9)
• FIXTURE(9)
• FIXTURE_SETUP(9)
• FIXTURE_TEARDOWN(9)
• FIXTURE_TEARDOWN_PARENT(9)
• FIXTURE_VARIANT(9)
• FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(9)
• TEST_F(9)
• TEST_HARNESS_MAIN(9)
• operators(9)
• ASSERT_EQ(9)
• ASSERT_NE(9)
• ASSERT_LT(9)
• ASSERT_LE(9)
• ASSERT_GE(9)
• ASSERT_NULL(9)
• ASSERT_TRUE(9)
• ASSERT_FALSE(9)
• ASSERT_STREQ(9)
• ASSERT_STRNE(9)
• EXPECT_EQ(9)
• EXPECT_NE(9)
• EXPECT_LT(9)
• EXPECT_LE(9)
• EXPECT_GT(9)
• EXPECT_GE(9)
• EXPECT_NULL(9)
• EXPECT_TRUE(9)
• EXPECT_FALSE(9)
• EXPECT_STREQ(9)
• EXPECT_STRNE(9)
• XFAIL_ADD(9)

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and that's the whole page bestie, no crumbs left 🌈 this lil guy comes to you from the ./tools/testing/selftests corner of the kernel tree, dated October 2026, and it ate. periodt. 💜🎀✨