The patch titled
Subject: Revert "selftests: error out if kernel header files are not yet built"
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is
revert-selftests-error-out-if-kernel-header-files-are-not-yet-built.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/revert-selftests-error-out-if-kernel-header-files-are-not-yet-built.patch
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Revert "selftests: error out if kernel header files are not yet built"
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 18:01:44 -0800
This reverts commit 9fc96c7c19df ("selftests: error out if kernel header
files are not yet built").
It turns out that requiring the kernel headers to be built as a
prerequisite to building selftests, does not work in many cases. For
example, Peter Zijlstra writes:
"My biggest beef with the whole thing is that I simply do not want to use
'make headers', it doesn't work for me.
I have a ton of output directories and I don't care to build tools into
the output dirs, in fact some of them flat out refuse to work that way
(bpf comes to mind)." [1]
Therefore, stop erroring out on the selftests build. Additional patches
will be required in order to change over to not requiring the kernel
headers.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20231208221007.GO28727@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231209020144.244759-1-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 9fc96c7c19df ("selftests: error out if kernel header files are not yet built")
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 21 ---------------
tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk | 40 ++---------------------------
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk~revert-selftests-error-out-if-kernel-header-files-are-not-yet-built
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
@@ -44,26 +44,10 @@ endif
selfdir = $(realpath $(dir $(filter %/lib.mk,$(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
top_srcdir = $(selfdir)/../../..
-ifeq ("$(origin O)", "command line")
- KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(O)
+ifeq ($(KHDR_INCLUDES),)
+KHDR_INCLUDES := -isystem $(top_srcdir)/usr/include
endif
-ifneq ($(KBUILD_OUTPUT),)
- # Make's built-in functions such as $(abspath ...), $(realpath ...) cannot
- # expand a shell special character '~'. We use a somewhat tedious way here.
- abs_objtree := $(shell cd $(top_srcdir) && mkdir -p $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && cd $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && pwd)
- $(if $(abs_objtree),, \
- $(error failed to create output directory "$(KBUILD_OUTPUT)"))
- # $(realpath ...) resolves symlinks
- abs_objtree := $(realpath $(abs_objtree))
- KHDR_DIR := ${abs_objtree}/usr/include
-else
- abs_srctree := $(shell cd $(top_srcdir) && pwd)
- KHDR_DIR := ${abs_srctree}/usr/include
-endif
-
-KHDR_INCLUDES := -isystem $(KHDR_DIR)
-
# The following are built by lib.mk common compile rules.
# TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS should be used by tests that require
# custom build rule and prevent common build rule use.
@@ -74,25 +58,7 @@ TEST_GEN_PROGS := $(patsubst %,$(OUTPUT)
TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED := $(patsubst %,$(OUTPUT)/%,$(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED))
TEST_GEN_FILES := $(patsubst %,$(OUTPUT)/%,$(TEST_GEN_FILES))
-all: kernel_header_files $(TEST_GEN_PROGS) $(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED) \
- $(TEST_GEN_FILES)
-
-kernel_header_files:
- @ls $(KHDR_DIR)/linux/*.h >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; \
- if [ $$? -ne 0 ]; then \
- RED='\033[1;31m'; \
- NOCOLOR='\033[0m'; \
- echo; \
- echo -e "$${RED}error$${NOCOLOR}: missing kernel header files."; \
- echo "Please run this and try again:"; \
- echo; \
- echo " cd $(top_srcdir)"; \
- echo " make headers"; \
- echo; \
- exit 1; \
- fi
-
-.PHONY: kernel_header_files
+all: $(TEST_GEN_PROGS) $(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED) $(TEST_GEN_FILES)
define RUN_TESTS
BASE_DIR="$(selfdir)"; \
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile~revert-selftests-error-out-if-kernel-header-files-are-not-yet-built
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
@@ -155,12 +155,10 @@ ifneq ($(KBUILD_OUTPUT),)
abs_objtree := $(realpath $(abs_objtree))
BUILD := $(abs_objtree)/kselftest
KHDR_INCLUDES := -isystem ${abs_objtree}/usr/include
- KHDR_DIR := ${abs_objtree}/usr/include
else
BUILD := $(CURDIR)
abs_srctree := $(shell cd $(top_srcdir) && pwd)
KHDR_INCLUDES := -isystem ${abs_srctree}/usr/include
- KHDR_DIR := ${abs_srctree}/usr/include
DEFAULT_INSTALL_HDR_PATH := 1
endif
@@ -174,7 +172,7 @@ export KHDR_INCLUDES
# all isn't the first target in the file.
.DEFAULT_GOAL := all
-all: kernel_header_files
+all:
@ret=1; \
for TARGET in $(TARGETS); do \
BUILD_TARGET=$$BUILD/$$TARGET; \
@@ -185,23 +183,6 @@ all: kernel_header_files
ret=$$((ret * $$?)); \
done; exit $$ret;
-kernel_header_files:
- @ls $(KHDR_DIR)/linux/*.h >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; \
- if [ $$? -ne 0 ]; then \
- RED='\033[1;31m'; \
- NOCOLOR='\033[0m'; \
- echo; \
- echo -e "$${RED}error$${NOCOLOR}: missing kernel header files."; \
- echo "Please run this and try again:"; \
- echo; \
- echo " cd $(top_srcdir)"; \
- echo " make headers"; \
- echo; \
- exit 1; \
- fi
-
-.PHONY: kernel_header_files
-
run_tests: all
@for TARGET in $(TARGETS); do \
BUILD_TARGET=$$BUILD/$$TARGET; \
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx are
revert-selftests-error-out-if-kernel-header-files-are-not-yet-built.patch
