On 11/06/2017 06:14 PM, lei yang wrote: > > > On 2017年11月07日 07:35, Shuah Khan wrote: >> On 11/05/2017 03:08 AM, Lei Yang wrote: >>> I got below error message when building sync test: >>> >>> make[1]: Entering directory `tools/testing/selftests/sync' >>> gcc -c sync.c -o tools/testing/selftests/sync/sync.o >>> sync.c:42:29: fatal error: linux/sync_file.h: No such file or directory >>> #include <linux/sync_file.h> >>> >>> obviously, CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are not used when comipling. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Lei Yang <Lei.Yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> tools/testing/selftests/sync/Makefile | 4 ++-- >>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/sync/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/sync/Makefile >>> index 8e04d0a..46cbcc3 100644 >>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/sync/Makefile >>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/sync/Makefile >>> @@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ $(TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS): $(TESTS) $(OBJS) >>> $(CC) -o $(TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS) $(OBJS) $(TESTS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) >>> $(OBJS): $(OUTPUT)/%.o: %.c >>> - $(CC) -c $^ -o $@ >>> + $(CC) -c $^ -o $@ $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) >>> $(TESTS): $(OUTPUT)/%.o: %.c >>> - $(CC) -c $^ -o $@ >>> + $(CC) -c $^ -o $@ $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) >>> EXTRA_CLEAN := $(TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS) $(OBJS) $(TESTS) >>> >> How are you building the test? I am not seeing the error on linux-4.14.0-rc8 > > make -C tools/testing/selftests > > Lei > > Based on the information in your other emails, looks like you are testing these patches on $ cat /proc/version Linux version 3.16.0-30-generic (buildd@kissel) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #40~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 15 17:43:14 UTC 2015 That explains why you aren't finding sync_file.h header. This test isn't applicable to Linux 3.16. In any case, I can't take patches that aren't tested on the latest kernel release. 3.16 is very old. thanks, -- Shuah -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kselftest" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
