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Message-ID: <20200929163507.GV9916@ziepe.ca>
Date:   Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:35:07 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] selftests/vm: use a common gup_test.h

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:10:24PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 9/28/20 5:57 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 11:21:53PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> > > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile
> > > index d1ae706d9927..9cc6bc087461 100644
> > > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile
> > > @@ -130,3 +130,5 @@ endif
> > >   $(OUTPUT)/userfaultfd: LDLIBS += -lpthread
> > >   $(OUTPUT)/mlock-random-test: LDLIBS += -lcap
> > > +
> > > +$(OUTPUT)/gup_test: ../../../../mm/gup_test.h
> > 
> > There is no reason to do this, the auto depends will pick up header
> > files, and gup_test.h isn't a generated file
> > 
> 
> It is less capable than you might think. Without the admittedly ugly technique
> above, it fails to build, and as you can see, the include paths that are fed to
> gcc are just a single one: usr/include:
> 
> $ make
> make --no-builtin-rules ARCH=x86 -C ../../../.. headers_install
> gcc -Wall -I ../../../../usr/include     gup_test.c
> /kernel_work/linux-next-github/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h
> /kernel_work/linux-next-github/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest.h
> ../../../../mm/gup_test.h -lrt -o
> /kernel_work/linux-next-github/tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test
> make[1]: Entering directory '/kernel_work/linux-next-github'
> gup_test.c:10:10: fatal error: gup_test.h: No such file or directory
>    10 | #include "gup_test.h"
>       |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~

You are supposed to use

  #include "../../../../mm/gup_test.h"

I have no idea what weird behavior the makefile is triggering that the
above include works

Jason