+ documentation-kselftest-make-headers-is-a-prerequisite.patch added to mm-unstable branch

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The patch titled
     Subject: Documentation: kselftest: "make headers" is a prerequisite
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     documentation-kselftest-make-headers-is-a-prerequisite.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/documentation-kselftest-make-headers-is-a-prerequisite.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Documentation: kselftest: "make headers" is a prerequisite
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 19:15:58 -0700

As per a discussion with Muhammad Usama Anjum [1], the following is how
one is supposed to build selftests:

    make headers && make -C tools/testing/selftests/mm

However, that's not yet documented anywhere. So add it to
Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst .

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/bf910fa5-0c96-3707-cce4-5bcc656b6274@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230603021558.95299-12-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst~documentation-kselftest-make-headers-is-a-prerequisite
+++ a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Running the selftests (hotplug tests are
 
 To build the tests::
 
+  $ make headers
   $ make -C tools/testing/selftests
 
 To run the tests::
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx are

selftests-mm-fix-uffd-stress-unused-function-warning.patch
selftests-mm-fix-unused-variable-warnings-in-hugetlb-madvisec-migrationc.patch
selftests-mm-fix-warning-expression-which-evaluates-to-zero-in-mlock2-testsc.patch
selftests-mm-fix-invocation-of-tests-that-are-run-via-shell-scripts.patch
selftests-mm-gitignore-add-mkdirty-va_high_addr_switch.patch
selftests-mm-fix-two-wformat-security-warnings-in-uffd-builds.patch
selftests-mm-fix-a-possibly-uninitialized-warning-in-pkey-x86h.patch
selftests-mm-fix-uffd-unit-testsc-build-failure-due-to-missing-madv_collapse.patch
selftests-mm-move-psize-pshift-into-vm_utilsc.patch
selftests-mm-move-uffd-routines-from-vm_utilc-to-uffd-commonc.patch
documentation-kselftest-make-headers-is-a-prerequisite.patch
selftests-error-out-if-kernel-header-files-are-not-yet-built.patch




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