linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] selftests: livepatch: Test livepatching a heavily called syscall

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.2312061530470.13051@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 6 Dec 2023 15:39:20 +0100 (CET)
From:   Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
To:     Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:     mpdesouza@...e.com, Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@...e.de>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] selftests: livepatch: Test livepatching a heavily
 called syscall

Hi,

On Tue, 5 Dec 2023, Shuah Khan wrote:

> On 12/5/23 05:52, mpdesouza@...e.com wrote:
> > On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 16:38 +0000, Shuah Khan wrote:
> 
> > 0003-selftests-livepatch-Test-livepatching-a-heavily-call.patch has
> > style problems, please review.
> > 
> > NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report
> >        them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
> > 
> > I couldn't find any mention about "missing module name". Is your script
> > showing more warnings than these ones? Can you please share your
> > output?
> > 
> > I'll fix MAINTAINERS file but I'll wait until I understand what's
> > missing in your checkpatch script to resend the patchset.
> > 
> 
> Looks like it is coming a script - still my question stands on
> whether or not you would need a module name for this module?

I admit I am also clueless here. The module name is given in Makefile. In 
this case in test_modules/Makefile. I do not know of anything else. There 
is no MODULE_NAME macro. Could you elaborate, please?

Miroslav