linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 08/11] selftests/mm: fix uffd-unit-tests.c build failure due to missing MADV

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Message-ID: <a96f95e1-ad7e-1d23-191e-014d3befe5a3@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:18:20 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@...labora.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/11] selftests/mm: fix uffd-unit-tests.c build
 failure due to missing MADV_COLLAPSE

On 20.06.23 12:17, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> On 6/20/23 6:17 AM, John Hubbard wrote:
>> MADV_PAGEOUT, MADV_POPULATE_READ, MADV_COLLAPSE are conditionally
>> defined as necessary. However, that was being done in .c files, and a
>> new build failure came up that would have been automatically avoided had
>> these been in a common header file.
>>
>> So consolidate and move them all to vm_util.h, which fixes the build
>> failure.
>>
>> An alternative approach from Muhammad Usama Anjum was: rely on "make
>> headers" being required, and include asm-generic/mman-common.h. This
>> works in the sense that it builds, but it still generates warnings about
>> duplicate MADV_* symbols, and the goal here is to get a fully clean (no
>> warnings) build here.
> I've not looked in detail. But it seems like your first revision was merged
> and after that my cleanup has also been merged. My cleanup patch is adding
> correct header files and removing these duplicate defines: It is in
> mm-stable now.
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230619232244.81CB3C433C0@smtp.kernel.org

See

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0379db8e-744d-2876-7304-2a6db8c9cac0@nvidia.com

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb