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
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/documentation-kselftest-make-headers-is-a-prerequisite.patch
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From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Documentation: kselftest: "make headers" is a prerequisite
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 00:16:36 -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/20230606071637.267103-11-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
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-build-failures-due-to-missing-madv_collapse.patch
selftests-mm-move-certain-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
selftests-error-out-if-kernel-header-files-are-not-yet-built-fix.patch
