EXPECT_EQ(9)

💅 EXPECT_EQ 💅

okay bestie, welcome to EXPECT_EQ, section 9 of the Kernel API Manual — aka the kselftest harness macro that checks whether two things are, like, the same thing. no big dramatic exits, no panic energy, just a soft little "hmm, these should match" 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

EXPECT_EQ —

(yeah the original just trails off there, no cap 😭 that's literally the whole name entry. it's giving mysterious. it's giving "she said she'd text back and then didn't" 🫶)

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

EXPECT_EQ (expected , seen );

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. two things go in, judgement happens 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• expected — the value you're expecting to see. your hopes, your dreams, your little prediction 🌸
• seen — the value you actually measured. the reality check. what the code really did 🔥

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie: EXPECT_EQ(expected, measured): expected == measured — you're saying those two should be equal, and the harness is gonna check that expected == measured for you. it's the soft-girl version of an equality assertion, iykyk 💜

lowkey important: this is the EXPECT family, not the ASSERT family — check the SEE ALSO list below if you wanna meet the whole friend group 💅

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the whole squad, fr fr — go say hi 👋

• 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_GT(9)
• ASSERT_GE(9)
• ASSERT_NULL(9)
• ASSERT_TRUE(9)
• ASSERT_FALSE(9)
• ASSERT_STREQ(9)
• ASSERT_STRNE(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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mwah 💋 that's the page!! sourced straight from ./tools/testing/selftests, dated October 2026 — screenshot it, memorise it, live by it. periodt. 🧚✨