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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:53:59 +0100
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
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John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/5] selftests/mm: add UFFDIO_MOVE ioctl test
>> Further, the tests are closely related to the given kernel version, they are
>> not some completely separate tests.
>
> Note that there's a general desire for the tests to *run* with older
> kernels and use whatever feature test mechanisms exist to skip tests
> that won't run. That's often needed anyway for configurable things.
Agreed.
>
>> (3) avoids dirtying the tree as a "make headers_install" would, but it also
>> means that each test that makes use of new uapi has to update the relevant
>> headers (what people working on QEMU are used to).
>
> Note that you can do an out of tree build to avoid dirtying things.
Yes, but apparently the simple "make headers_install" will dirty the kernel.
See (and ideally comment on)
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231209020144.244759-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
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Cheers,
David / dhildenb
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