linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] nolibc: small updates required for the self-tests

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Message-ID: <20220321204244.GJ4285@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1>
Date:   Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:42:44 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@...weeb.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] nolibc: small updates required for the self-tests

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 09:33:19PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 01:29:08PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 06:33:06PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > Hello Paul,
> > > 
> > > while developing the nolibc self-tests, I naturally faced a few
> > > limitations ranging from missing POLL* flags to missing strcmp() or
> > > getenv(), as well as the ability for printf() to print "(null)" on
> > > "%s" instead of crashing.
> > > 
> > > This series adds a makefile and a headers installation target that
> > > creates a sysroot made of kernel headers and nolibc headers, which
> > > significantly ease building programs.
> > > 
> > > I already have some test code with roughly 75 tests, but I find it
> > > misplaced in the nolibc dir, I need to move it to testing/selftests/
> > > before sending it to you.
> > > 
> > > This series is intended to be an add-on to what you already have in your
> > > dev branch. I don't intend to send you much more stuff on top of this,
> > > but I expect to see an update from Ammar's patch set (CCed). With all
> > > this I think we'll have a good basis to easily add new tests.
> > 
> > I have pulled this series in for review and testing, thank you!
> > 
> > It won't go into -next until v5.18-rc1 comes out, in about two weeks,
> > but it will at least be in -rcu.
> 
> Perfect, thank you!
> 
> > I removed an ostensibly extraneous blank line from the end of
> > tools/include/nolibc/Makefile.  So please let me know if that blank line
> > is actually necessary.
> 
> Oh I'm very sorry, that the type of thing I'm very careful about so it
> has definitely escaped my checks.

"To err is human!"  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul