+ selftests-mm-remove-flaky-header-check.patch added to mm-new branch

+ selftests-mm-remove-flaky-header-check.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: selftests/mm: remove flaky header check
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     selftests-mm-remove-flaky-header-check.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/selftests-mm-remove-flaky-header-check.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-new branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Subject: selftests/mm: remove flaky header check
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 16:48:36 +0000

Commit 96ed62ea0298 ("mm: page_frag: fix a compile error when kernel is
not compiled") introduced a check to avoid attempting to build the
page_frag module if <linux/page_frag_cache.h> is missing.

Unfortunately this check only works if KDIR points to /lib/modules/...  or
an in-tree kernel build.  It always fails if KDIR points to an out-of-tree
build (i.e.  when the kernel was built with O=...  make) because only
generated headers are present under $KDIR/include/ in that case.

A recent commit switched KDIR to default to the kernel's build directory,
so that check is no longer justified.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107164842.3289559-3-kevin.brodsky@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Anjum <Usama.Anjum@arm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile |    4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile~selftests-mm-remove-flaky-header-check
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile
@@ -46,12 +46,8 @@ CFLAGS += -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
 
 KDIR ?= $(if $(O),$(O),$(realpath ../../../..))
 ifneq (,$(wildcard $(KDIR)/Module.symvers))
-ifneq (,$(wildcard $(KDIR)/include/linux/page_frag_cache.h))
 TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR := page_frag
 else
-PAGE_FRAG_WARNING = "missing page_frag_cache.h, please use a newer kernel"
-endif
-else
 PAGE_FRAG_WARNING = "missing Module.symvers, please have the kernel built first"
 endif
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from kevin.brodsky@arm.com are

x86-xen-simplify-flush_lazy_mmu.patch
powerpc-mm-implement-arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode.patch
sparc-mm-implement-arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode.patch
mm-clarify-lazy_mmu-sleeping-constraints.patch
mm-introduce-config_arch_has_lazy_mmu_mode.patch
mm-introduce-generic-lazy_mmu-helpers.patch
mm-bail-out-of-lazy_mmu_mode_-in-interrupt-context.patch
mm-enable-lazy_mmu-sections-to-nest.patch
arm64-mm-replace-tif_lazy_mmu-with-is_lazy_mmu_mode_active.patch
powerpc-mm-replace-batch-active-with-is_lazy_mmu_mode_active.patch
sparc-mm-replace-batch-active-with-is_lazy_mmu_mode_active.patch
x86-xen-use-lazy_mmu_state-when-context-switching.patch
mm-add-basic-tests-for-lazy_mmu.patch
mm-add-basic-tests-for-lazy_mmu-fix-fix-fix.patch
selftests-mm-default-kdir-to-build-directory.patch
selftests-mm-remove-flaky-header-check.patch
selftests-mm-pass-down-full-cc-and-cflags-to-check_configsh.patch
selftests-mm-fix-usage-of-force_read-in-cow-tests.patch
selftests-mm-introduce-helper-to-read-every-page-in-range.patch
selftests-mm-fix-faulting-in-code-in-pagemap_ioctl-test.patch
selftests-mm-fix-exit-code-in-pagemap_ioctl.patch
selftests-mm-report-skip-in-pfnmap-if-a-check-fails.patch