Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: run_vmtests.sh: fix relative path handling

["David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 1/9/26 03:08, sun jian wrote:
>> hm, why?  Is that a thing people actually do?
>>
>> Is anyone going to actually test this feature?
> 
> Yes — invoking selftests directly from the kernel root can easily happen in
> practice, for example::
> 
>    sudo tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
> 
> This currently results in false failures because relative paths being resolved
> against the caller's cwd instead of the script directory.
>>
>> Alternatively we could check that we're in the correct directory and
>> error out if not.
> 
> That would also be reasonable, but I slightly prefer auto-cd because it
> avoids an easy invocation pitfall and makes the runner more robust for
> wrappers/CI
> where the cwd is  not stable. That said, I'm happy to switch to a fail-fast cwd
> check if you prefer the behavior.

I'd prefer to just fail for the case that we never supported instead of 
adding support for it.

-- 
Cheers

David