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Date:   Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:45:01 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Anup Patel <anup.patel@....com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis@....com>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] KVM: selftests: Add EXTRA_CFLAGS in top-level
 Makefile

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021, Anup Patel wrote:
> We add EXTRA_CFLAGS to the common CFLAGS of top-level Makefile

Nit, wrap closer to 75 chars.

> which will allow users to pass additional compile-time flags such
> as "-static".

In case there's any hesitation in applying this (Paolo asked if this was just for
debugging in v1), being able to pass "-static" is helpful for our environment as
our test systems have a funky and minimal configuration (no gcc, and the interpreter
is in a weird location).  Running selftests either requires building them with
-static or creating a symbolic link for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2.  It's generally
easier to just tell people to compile with -static.

> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@....com>
> ---

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>