netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf 1/2] selftests/bpf: fix test_verifier/test

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Message-ID: <CAEf4BzZ4XAdjasYq+JGFHnhwEV3G5UYWBuqKMK1yu1KRLn19MQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jul 2019 14:40:46 -0700
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...ichev.me>
Cc:     Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
        Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf 1/2] selftests/bpf: fix test_verifier/test_maps make dependencies

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 12:55 PM Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...ichev.me> wrote:
>
> On 07/16, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > e46fc22e60a4 ("selftests/bpf: make directory prerequisites order-only")
> > exposed existing problem in Makefile for test_verifier and test_maps tests:
> > their dependency on auto-generated header file with a list of all tests wasn't
> > recorded explicitly. This patch fixes these issues.
> Why adding it explicitly fixes it? At least for test_verifier, we have
> the following rule:
>
>         test_verifier.c: $(VERIFIER_TESTS_H)
>
> And there should be implicit/builtin test_verifier -> test_verifier.c
> dependency rule.
>
> Same for maps, I guess:
>
>         $(OUTPUT)/test_maps: map_tests/*.c
>         test_maps.c: $(MAP_TESTS_H)
>
> So why is it not working as is? What I'm I missing?

I don't know exactly why it's not working, but it's clearly because of
that. It's the only difference between how test_progs are set up,
which didn't break, and test_maps/test_verifier, which did.

Feel free to figure it out through a maze of Makefiles why it didn't
work as expected, but this definitely fixed a breakage (at least for
me).