linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests: cgroup: build error multiple outpt files

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Date:   Tue, 23 Nov 2021 15:26:00 +0100
From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
To:     Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>, shuah@...nel.org,
        christian@...uner.io, nathan@...nel.org, ndesaulniers@...gle.com,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests: cgroup: build error multiple outpt files

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 05:22:20PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 11/5/21 10:25 AM, Anders Roxell wrote:
> > When building selftests/cgroup: with clang the following error are seen:
> > 
> > clang -Wall -pthread    test_memcontrol.c cgroup_util.c ../clone3/clone3_selftests.h  -o /home/anders/.cache/tuxmake/builds/current/kselftest/cgroup/test_memcontrol
> > clang: error: cannot specify -o when generating multiple output files
> > make[3]: *** [../lib.mk:146: /home/anders/.cache/tuxmake/builds/current/kselftest/cgroup/test_memcontrol] Error 1
> > 
> > Rework to add the header files to LOCAL_HDRS before including ../lib.mk,
> > since the dependency is evaluated in '$(OUTPUT)/%:%.c $(LOCAL_HDRS)' in
> > file lib.mk.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>
> > ---
> >   tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/Makefile | 12 +++++++-----
> >   tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk          |  2 +-
> >   2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/Makefile
> > index 59e222460581..745fe25fa0b9 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/Makefile
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/Makefile
> > @@ -11,10 +11,12 @@ TEST_GEN_PROGS += test_core
> >   TEST_GEN_PROGS += test_freezer
> >   TEST_GEN_PROGS += test_kill
> > +LOCAL_HDRS += $(selfdir)/clone3/clone3_selftests.h $(selfdir)/pidfd/pidfd.h
> > +
> 
> This looks odd to me. Why are we introducing dependencies between tests?
> clone3 includes in cgroup? Looks odd to me.

The cgroup tests need access to clone3() functionality in order to test
CLONE_INTO_CGROUP which is more suited to be placed alongside the cgroup
tests. There are a few other tests that include the clone3 header.