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Message-ID: <97b6a4ea-d53a-47f1-8e64-5b9558f194c1@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:17:54 -0700
From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
 Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
 "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
 pedro.falcato@...il.com, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] selftests: pidfd: add tests for PIDFD_SELF_*

On 10/17/24 5:06 AM, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> +cc John, sorry I forgot to cc you on other replies!!
> 
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 09:08:19AM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> In any case I think copying the header to the tools/ directory with this
>> linux/fcntl.h in some way stubbed out (we could even stub out fcntl.h
>> there?) is the sensible way forward.
>>
>> A 'just include the header' is simply not an option as it breaks the tests.

I should have read this one first, this morning, but I missed it 
initially. :)

> 
> Ohhh ok I think maybe we could have a good compromise that should (hopefully!)
> satisfy both you and John.
> 
> I can introduce tools/include/linux/pidfd.h that is a stub wrapper around
> the pidfd.h file.
> 
> So it can be something like:
> 
> 
> 	#ifndef __TOOLS_LINUX_PIDFD_H
> 	#define __TOOLS_LINUX_PIDFD_H
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * Some systems have issues with the linux/fcntl.h import in linux/pidfd.h, so
> 	 * work around this by setting the header guard.
> 	 */
> 	#define _LINUX_FCNTL_H
> 	#include "../../../include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h"
> 	#undef _LINUX_FCNTL_H
> 
> 	#endif /* __TOOLS_LINUX_PIDFD_H */
> 
> 
> Then the test code needs only to update the pidfd.h file to #include
> <linux/pidfd.h> and add a simple $(TOOLS_INCLUDES) to the CFLAGS += line in
> the pidfd self tests Makefile and we should be all good.

Yes.

> 
> That way we always import everything in this header correctly, we directly
> document this issue, we include the header as you would in userland and we
> should cover off all the issues?

Very nice!


thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard


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