linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Don't pass -rR to selftest makefiles

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Message-ID: <1426031386.20917.4.camel@ellerman.id.au>
Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:49:46 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
Cc:	mmarek@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davej@...emonkey.org.uk, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Don't pass -rR to selftest makefiles

On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 17:39 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 03/10/2015 05:36 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 16:49 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> >> On 03/09/2015 08:28 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> >>> On 03/04/2015 03:19 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> >>>> The makefiles under tools/testing/selftests are not real kbuild
> >>>> makefiles, they are regular stand alone makefiles. As such they *do*
> >>>> want all the standard implicit rules and variables defined.
> >>>>
> >>>> So before calling those makefiles, filter -rR out of MAKEFLAGS.
> >>>>
> >>>> Without this not all the selftests are built correctly when called via
> >>>> the top-level Makefile.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Michal,
> >>>
> >>> Could you please take this patch in your tree.
> >>>
> >>> Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
> >>>
> >>
> >> I am changing this to a Nack. This is not fully cooked.
> >> I am seeing new failures on some tests.
> >>
> >> gcc: error: elf_x86_64: No such file or directory
> >> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-m’
> > 
> > I can't reproduce that here. In what way do you think it's related to this
> > patch?
> 
> I have just your patch on tops of linux 4.0-rc3 and ran
> make kselftest and that's what I see.
> 
> If you can fix this problem I can take your patch, otherwise,
> I have to go with individual Makefiles fixes.

OK I see it now, only happens on x86.

It looks like it's coming in via kbuild. Though I can only see it being set in
arch/x86/Makefile.um, and I don't know why that is being sourced. But it must
be.

So this is another symptom of running via the top-level Makefile rather than
directly.

I'll try and find a fix.

cheers


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