linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] selftests/vm: hmm-tests: remove the libhugetlbfs dependency

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Message-ID: <47ff8f88-3bb2-e649-a898-bb258ecac874@nvidia.com>
Date:   Sun, 4 Oct 2020 01:17:40 -0700
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.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>, <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 v2 8/8] selftests/vm: hmm-tests: remove the libhugetlbfs
 dependency

On 10/4/20 12:55 AM, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, John Hubbard wrote:
...
> John, your change makes:
> 
> tools/testing/selftests$ make clean
> 
> fail with:
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory
> '/home/lukas/repositories/kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next/tools/testing/selftests/vm'
> Makefile:4: local_config.mk: No such file or directory
> ./check_config.sh gcc
> make[1]: execvp: ./check_config.sh: Permission denied
> Makefile:141: recipe for target 'local_config.mk' failed
> make[1]: *** [local_config.mk] Error 127


Yes, there's a fix for that, here:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201003002142.32671-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com

...and Andrew Morton has merged it into his tree as of yesterday, too.
(As shown in the attached email, which has notes about how that flow
works.)


Sorry that you had to run into that, but this should fix you up.


thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

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