On Wed, 2022-08-31 at 14:15 -0700, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
> Note: this commit is intended to apply to mm-unstable, the commit
> being
> fixed only exists in that branch for now.
>
> Commit b4efb234e53cc60ccdc855190be9f35918687412 ("Kselftests: remove
> support of libhugetlbfs from kselftests") removed the rule describing
> how to build local_config.{h,mk}, but it left two references to these
> files lingering around. The result is, none of the selftests could be
> built due to dependencies with no rule for how to build them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile
> b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile
> index b52f2cc51482..4ae879f70f4c 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile
> @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> # Makefile for vm selftests
>
> -LOCAL_HDRS += $(selfdir)/vm/local_config.h
> $(top_srcdir)/mm/gup_test.h
> -
> -include local_config.mk
> +LOCAL_HDRS += $(top_srcdir)/mm/gup_test.h
>
> uname_M := $(shell uname -m 2>/dev/null || echo not)
> MACHINE ?= $(shell echo $(uname_M) | sed -e 's/aarch64.*/arm64/' -e
> 's/ppc64.*/ppc64/')
Thanks, Alex. When I looked why it built in my case, The local_config
was part of .gitignore which "git clean" ignored and they resided there
and source was built without any problem.
I have submitted a new patch for updated .gitignore.
