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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] selftests/userfaultfd: improve syscall number definition
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Hi Michael,

On 23/09/15 10:55, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 18:15 +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> On 22/09/15 15:06, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>>> Andre, could you see if linux-next (which includes -mm) works for you
>>> by just running "cd tools/testing/selftests/vm/ && make"? If there's
>>> any further change required could you diff it against linux-next?
>>
>> This doesn't compile now for me, because it looks into
>> /usr/include/asm/unistd.h, which I keep to the distribution copy of it.
>> Also linux/userfaultfd.h is missing, because it's brand new.
> ...
>> I guess the right solution would be to hack the Makefile to set the
>> include path to the kernel's copy of include/uapi, though I am not sure
>> this works cleanly for different architectures and separate build
>> directories. I will give this a try ...
>
> Not that's not the right solution.
>
> The right solution is to export the kernel headers, the Makefile will pick them
> up (at least in linux-next):

Actually that was I was hoping for, I just missed the possibility of
headers_install to put the files back into the kernel tree (I usually
use it with INSTALL_HDR_PATH for packaging).

>
> $ cd linux
> $ make headers_install
> $ ls usr/include/
> asm/ asm-generic/ drm/ linux/ misc/ mtd/ rdma/ scsi/ sound/ uapi/ video/ xen/
> $ make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=vm
> ...
> $ ls tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd
> tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd*

Yes, that works. Now I have just to figure out how to arrange this with
out-of-tree build directories.

Cheers,
Andre.


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