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SubjectRe: [PATCH] selftests/vm: fix: make check_config.sh executable
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On 10/2/20 1:10 AM, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 10/2/20 12:59 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 23:48:11 -0700 John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> commit 30fb9454ab23 ("selftests/vm: hmm-tests: remove the libhugetlbfs
>>> dependency") created the new check_config.sh file without the execute
>>> bits set. This is a problem because the Makefile runs it with "./", so
>>> now "make" is failing in that directory.
>>>
>>> The posted patch [1] does seem to have it as an executable file, so I'm
>>> not sure how this happened. But in any case, make check_config.sh
>>> executable again, so that "make" in selftests/vm works once again.
>>
>> The correct fix is to make sure that the Makefile runs it explicitly
>> with a shell because is such a patch is applied with patch(1), the
>> execute bit will not be preserved.
>>
>> See e.g. in the top level Makefile:
>>
>>     $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh $@
>>
>
> OK...we should also fix it anyway, seeing as how the run_vmtest.sh also needs
> the execute bit re-set, yes?
>

...and I should add that I'm stuck in a non-Kbuild system, here. So
$(CONFIG_SHELL) is not available, sigh.

> So I guess I should send a patch that does:
>
> * chmod +x on both run_vmtest.sh and check_config.sh, plus
>
> * invoke check_config.sh via $(CONFIG_SHELL) from the Makefile.
>
> Does that sound about right?
>
> thanks,

thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

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