linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH kvm-next V11 7/7] KVM: guest_memfd: selftests: Add tests for mmap and NUMA policy support

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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:04:20 -0300
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH kvm-next V11 7/7] KVM: guest_memfd: selftests: Add tests
 for mmap and NUMA policy support

On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 02:35:19PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> >  LDLIBS += -ldl
> > +LDLIBS += -lnuma
> 
> Hrm, this is going to be very annoying.  I don't have libnuma-dev installed on
> any of my <too many> systems, and I doubt I'm alone.  Installing the package is
> trivial, but I'm a little wary of foisting that requirement on all KVM developers
> and build bots.

Wouldn't it be great if the kselftest build system used something like
meson and could work around these little issues without breaking the
whole build ? :(

Does anyone else think this?

Every time I try to build kselftsts I just ignore all the errors the
fly by because the one bit I wanted did build properly anyhow.

Jason