Hi On 27/11/2019 03:54, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@xxxxxxx> writes: >> Hi >> >> while testing on linux-next >> >> I see that, when KBUILD_OUTPUT is set in the env, running something like (using TARGETS=exec as a random subsystem here...) >> >> $ make TARGETS=exec INSTALL_PATH=/nfs/LTP-official-debian-aarch64-rootfs/opt/KSFT_next kselftest-install >> >> works fine as usual, WHILE the alternative invocation (still documented in Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst) >> >> make -C tools/testing/selftests/ TARGETS=exec INSTALL_PATH=/nfs/LTP-official-debian-aarch64-rootfs/opt/KSFT_next install >> >> fails miserably with: >> ... >> ... >> REMOVE usr/include/rdma/cxgb3-abi.h usr/include/rdma/nes-abi.h >> HDRINST usr/include/asm/kvm.h >> INSTALL /kselftest/usr/include >> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/kselftest’: Permission denied >> /home/crimar01/ARM/dev/src/pdsw/linux/Makefile:1187: recipe for target 'headers_install' failed >> make[2]: *** [headers_install] Error 1 >> >> >> This is fixed by unsetting KBUILD_OUTPUT OR reverting: >> >> 303e6218ecec (ksft/fixes) selftests: Fix O= and KBUILD_OUTPUT handling for relative paths >> >> since bypassing top makefile with -C, the definition of abs-objtree used by the above patch >> is no more available. >> >> As a side effect when KBUILD_OUTPUT is set, this breaks also the usage kselftest_install.sh. >> >> $ ./kselftest_install.sh /home/crimar01/ARM/dev/nfs/LTP-official-debian-aarch64-rootfs/opt/KSFT_full_next >> ./kselftest_install.sh: Installing in specified location - /home/crimar01/ARM/dev/nfs/LTP-official-debian-aarch64-rootfs/opt/KSFT_full_next ... >> make --no-builtin-rules INSTALL_HDR_PATH=$BUILD/usr \ >> ARCH=arm64 -C ../../.. headers_install >> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/crimar01/ARM/dev/src/pdsw/linux' >> make[2]: Entering directory '/home/crimar01/ARM/dev/src/pdsw/out_linux' >> INSTALL /kselftest/usr/include >> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/kselftest’: Permission denied >> /home/crimar01/ARM/dev/src/pdsw/linux/Makefile:1187: recipe for target 'headers_install' failed >> make[2]: *** [headers_install] Error 1 >> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/crimar01/ARM/dev/src/pdsw/out_linux' >> Makefile:179: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed >> make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 >> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/crimar01/ARM/dev/src/pdsw/linux' >> Makefile:142: recipe for target 'khdr' failed >> make: *** [khdr] Error 2 >> >> > ... >> Any thoughts ? ... or am I missing something ? > > You're not missing anything, this is broken. Thanks for the feedback ! Cristian > >> (I think I'm starting to see this in latest CI linaro kselftest while they cross-compile for arm64) > > It just hit my travis jobs when I merged up to master: > > https://travis-ci.org/linuxppc/linux/jobs/617482001 > > Shuah can we please get this reverted? > > cheers >