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Message-ID: <4d1acc28-3645-461a-97e3-316563f468e0@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:25:48 -0600
From: Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To: David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>
Cc: brendan.higgins@...ux.dev, rmoar@...gle.com, corbet@....net,
linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, kunit-dev@...glegroups.com,
workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kunit: add tips to clean source tree to build help
message
On 4/29/25 21:54, David Gow wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 06:27, Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> Add tips to clean source tree to build help message. When user run
>> kunit.py after building another kernel for ARCH=foo, it is necessary
>> to run 'make ARCH=foo mrproper' to remove all build artifacts generated
>> during the build. In such cases, kunit build could fail.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
>> ---
>
> Thanks for doing this.
>
> This looks good to me, save for the issue below.
>
> I do wonder whether there's a more general fix we can do in the
> makefiles, but I'm not sure how that'd have to work. Maybe by storing
> the architecture used somewhere and amending the error based on that,
> or hacking around the specific x86_64/UML incompatibilities. But let's
> go ahead with this fix regardless.
I agree the right fix is to see if kunit.py can suggest the right arch
to clean. I will take a look at that.
As you said, it is good to have this documented in this series.
>
> Cheers,
> -- David
>
>> tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
>> index 7f9ae55fd6d5..db86a396ed33 100755
>> --- a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
>> +++ b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
>> @@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ def main(argv: Sequence[str]) -> None:
>> 'the options in .kunitconfig')
>> add_common_opts(config_parser)
>>
>> - build_parser = subparser.add_parser('build', help='Builds a kernel with KUnit tests')
>> + build_parser = subparser.add_parser('build', help='Builds a kernel with KUnit tests. Successful build depends on a clean source tree. Run mrproper to clean generated artifcats for prior ARCH=foo kernel build. Run 'make ARCH=foo mrproper')
>
> Because this string is enclosed by single quotes, the 'make ARCH=foo
> mrproper' is not part of the string (and there's a missing terminating
> quote as well).
>
> Maybe change help= to use double quotes, and add the missing one? Or
> use double quotes or backticks for the make example?
>
>
>> add_common_opts(build_parser)
>> add_build_opts(build_parser)
Thanks for the pointers. I will go look at those to make this
help message coded better,
thanks,
-- Shuah
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