On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 10:45:11AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: > Dear Zhouyi, > > > Am 13.02.22 um 09:07 schrieb Zhouyi Zhou:, and > > > Thank you for your trust in me. > > Thank you for your help. > > > I think the following patch has a good explanation of what happened ;-) > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/torture.sh?id=a7d89cfb8e1269cb6d22453adba56b8d0218589f > > "The torture-test scripting's long-standing use of KVM as the > > environment variable tracking the pathname of the rcutorture directory > > now conflicts with allmodconfig builds due to the > > virt/kvm/Makefile.kvm file's use of this as a makefile variable" > > Indeed. In my script I had added the remote for the rcu git archive, but > forgot to actually fetch the objects and refs, and missed the error message > in the output. > > Sorry for the noise, though the variable name should probably namespaced, as > at least for the name `KVM` the chance are higher (still very small) that > it’s set in the environment. In -rcu and -next, it is now named "RCUTORTURE". But if there are other rcutorture environment variables in need of namespacing, please let me know. Thanx, Paul