linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools: testing: Allow importing arch headers in shared.mk

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Message-ID: <zfp32vgyidkytvbksyan2fwdoenvvbte3gbe2ndcuhanfwt3e3@rszlbrta4yw6>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:43:15 -0400
From: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>
To: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@...e.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools: testing: Allow importing arch headers in
 shared.mk

* Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com> [250827 11:07]:
> On Wed Aug 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM UTC, Pedro Falcato wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 11:04:41AM +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> >> There is an arch/ tree under tools. This contains some useful stuff, to
> >> make that available, import the necessary Make helper file and then add
> >> it to the -I flags.
> >> 
> >> There still aren't that many headers so also just smush all of them into
> >> SHARED_DEPS instead of starting to do any header dependency hocus pocus.
> >>
> >
> > I was a little confused as to why this patchset was safe, and - yeah - i missed
> > the arch/ under tools/.
> >
> > There are asm-generic headers so hopefully those fully take care of !x86? 
> 
> [Confidently but wihout evidence] yep, without a doubt!
> 
> > Did you check?
> 
> Um, OK that's fair question. This doesn't support cross-compilation so
> you actually need a non-x86 environment.

btw, BUILD=32 works in the radix tree directory for 32bit testing.
Although there appears to be some warnings right now for it.

Thanks,
Liam