Re: [PATCH RESEND v3 1/2] selftests/resctrl: Fix schemata write error check

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On 2023-09-14 at 08:14:25 -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
>Hi Maciej,
>
>On 9/13/2023 11:01 PM, Maciej Wieczór-Retman wrote:
>> On 2023-09-13 at 11:49:19 -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
>>> On 9/12/2023 10:59 PM, Maciej Wieczór-Retman wrote:
>>>> On 2023-09-12 at 09:00:28 -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
>>>>> On 9/11/2023 11:32 PM, Maciej Wieczór-Retman wrote:
>>>>>> On 2023-09-11 at 09:59:06 -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Maciej,
>>>>>>> When I build the tests with this applied I encounter the following:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> resctrlfs.c: In function ‘write_schemata’:
>>>>>>> resctrlfs.c:475:14: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘open’; did you mean ‘popen’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>>>>>>>  475 |         fd = open(controlgroup, O_WRONLY);
>>>>>>>      |              ^~~~
>>>>>>>      |              popen
>>>>>>> resctrlfs.c:475:33: error: ‘O_WRONLY’ undeclared (first use in this function)
>>>>>>>  475 |         fd = open(controlgroup, O_WRONLY);
>>>>>>>      |                                 ^~~~~~~~
>>>>>>> resctrlfs.c:475:33: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hmm, that's odd. How do you build the tests?
>>>>>
>>>>> I applied this series on top of kselftest repo's "next" branch.
>>>>>
>>>>> I use a separate build directory and first ran "make headers". After that,
>>>>> $ make O=<build dir> -C tools/testing/selftests/resctrl
>>>>
>>>> I do the same, just without the build directory, but that shouldn't
>>>> matter here I guess.
>>>>
>>>>>> I use "make -C tools/testing/selftests/resctrl" while in the root kernel
>>>>>> source directory. I tried to get the same error you experienced by
>>>>>> compiling some dummy test program with "open" and "O_WRONLY". From the
>>>>>> experiment I found that the "resctrl.h" header provides the declarations
>>>>>> that are causing your errors.
>>>>>
>>>> >From what I can tell resctrl.h does not include fcntl.h that provides
>>>>> what is needed.
>>>>
>>>> I found out you can run "gcc -M <file>" and it will recursively tell you
>>>> what headers are including other headers.
>>>>
>>>> Using this I found that "resctrl.h" includes <sys/mount.h> which in turn
>>>> includes <fcntl.h> out of /usr/include/sys directory. Is that also the
>>>> case on your system?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No. The test system I used is running glibc 2.35 and it seems that including
>>> fcntl.h was added to sys/mount.h in 2.36. See glibc commit
>>> 78a408ee7ba0 ("linux: Add open_tree")
>>>
>>> Generally we should avoid indirect inclusions and here I think certainly so
>>> since it cannot be guaranteed that fcntl.h would be available via 
>>> sys/mount.h.
>> 
>> Okay, would including the fcntl.h header to resctrl.h be okay in this
>> case? Or is there some other more sophisticated way of doing that (some
>> include guard or checking glibc version for example)?
>
>Ideally fcntl.h would be included in the file it is used. Doing so you may
>encounter the same problems as Ilpo in [1]. If that is the case and that fix works
>for you then you may want to have this series depend on Ilpo's work.

Thanks a lot for finding this, and yes, I get the same errors by adding the
header. I'll send the next version of this series with the added header
rebased on top of Ilpo's series you mentioned.

>Reinette
>
>[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/dfc53e-3f92-82e4-6af-d1a28e8c199a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 

-- 
Kind regards
Maciej Wieczór-Retman



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