linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for 4.11-rc1

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Message-Id: <20170226113744.GA17152@rapoport-lnx>
Date:   Sun, 26 Feb 2017 13:37:44 +0200
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for 4.11-rc1

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:42:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com> wrote:
> >
> > Stephen saw a conflict during kselftest merge with next
> [..]
> 
> There was also a conflict with some of Andrew's new userfaultfd tests.
> 
> I'm not at all sure I merged that correctly, although I tried to make
> the resolution at least look sane. The odd thing about those new tests
> is that it's all the same source file, except built with different
> compile-time defines to be different test binaries.
> 
> I didn't find any way to do that with any standard selftest makefile
> magic, so I just did the build rules by hand.
> 
> Somebody should actually verify that it does the right thing, please..
> Adding the two Mike's that did those test additions to the participant
> list.

The userfaultfd_* tests are built and they are working just fine.
Maybe it's worth adding userfaultfd_{hugetlb,shmem}.c which will define the
required defines and include userfaultfd.c?
Than we can get away with only specifying LDFLAGS += -lpthread in the
Makefile.
 
>                                Linus
>

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.