linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] selftest: sync: basic tests for sw

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Date:   Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:00:07 +1100
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Emilio López <emilio.lopez@...labora.co.uk>
Cc:     shuah@...nel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        gustavo.padovan@...labora.co.uk, riandrews@...roid.com,
        daniel.vetter@...ll.ch, John.C.Harrison@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        ghackmann@...gle.com, robdclark@...il.com,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com,
        daniels@...labora.com, arve@...roid.com, emil.l.velikov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] selftest: sync: basic tests for sw_sync framework

Emilio López <emilio.lopez@...labora.co.uk> writes:

> Hi,
>
> El 27/09/16 a las 01:23, Michael Ellerman escribió:
>> Emilio López <emilio.lopez@...labora.co.uk> writes:
>>> El 22/09/16 a las 06:43, Michael Ellerman escribió:
>>>> Emilio López <emilio.lopez@...labora.co.uk> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Please don't include the *kernel* headers, they're really not meant to
>>>> be used in userspace programs :)
>>>>
>>>>> +CFLAGS += -I../../../../usr/include/
>>>>
>>>> That is the correct place to get them from. They'll have been put there
>>>> by 'make headers_install'.
>>>
>>> My inspiration here has been tools/testing/selftests/memfd/Makefile,
>>> which does it this way. If I only include the ones on usr then it
>>> doesn't build, as there's no sync_file.h available, even after running
>>> make headers_install. How am I supposed to use the ioctls from there?
>>
>> It looks like it's missing from include/uapi/linux/Kbuild, you need to
>> add it to the list of exported headers:
>
> I tried that over the weekend and it worked, but I wondered if it was 
> the way to go. Thanks for the confirmation :) I've sent a patch for 
> that[0] now.

Great thanks.

> With that resolved, CFLAGS can just be
>
> CFLAGS += -O2 -g -std=gnu89 -pthread -Wall -Wextra
> CFLAGS += -I../../../../usr/include/

LGTM.

cheers