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From: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Tim.Bird@sony.com, "shuah@kernel.org" <shuah@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kselftest: failed to build with -C tool/testing/selftests when KBUILD_OUTPUT is set
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:54:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47e09faa-a3fb-04a7-4989-4443b27f47c2@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736ea2cty.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au>

Hi

On 27/11/2019 03:54, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com> writes:
>> Hi
>>
>> while testing on linux-next
>>
>> I see that, when KBUILD_OUTPUT is set in the env, running something like (using TARGETS=exec as a random subsystem here...)
>>
>> $ make TARGETS=exec INSTALL_PATH=/nfs/LTP-official-debian-aarch64-rootfs/opt/KSFT_next kselftest-install
>>
>> works fine as usual, WHILE the alternative invocation (still documented in Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst)
>>
>> make -C tools/testing/selftests/ TARGETS=exec INSTALL_PATH=/nfs/LTP-official-debian-aarch64-rootfs/opt/KSFT_next install
>>
>> fails miserably with:
>> ...
>> ...
>>  REMOVE  usr/include/rdma/cxgb3-abi.h usr/include/rdma/nes-abi.h
>>   HDRINST usr/include/asm/kvm.h
>>   INSTALL /kselftest/usr/include
>> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/kselftest’: Permission denied
>> /home/crimar01/ARM/dev/src/pdsw/linux/Makefile:1187: recipe for target 'headers_install' failed
>> make[2]: *** [headers_install] Error 1
>>
>>
>> This is fixed by unsetting KBUILD_OUTPUT OR reverting: 
>>
>> 303e6218ecec (ksft/fixes) selftests: Fix O= and KBUILD_OUTPUT handling for relative paths
>>
>> since bypassing top makefile with -C, the definition of abs-objtree used by the above patch
>> is no more available.
>>
>> As a side effect when KBUILD_OUTPUT is set, this breaks also the usage kselftest_install.sh.
>>
>>  $ ./kselftest_install.sh /home/crimar01/ARM/dev/nfs/LTP-official-debian-aarch64-rootfs/opt/KSFT_full_next
>> ./kselftest_install.sh: Installing in specified location - /home/crimar01/ARM/dev/nfs/LTP-official-debian-aarch64-rootfs/opt/KSFT_full_next ...
>> make --no-builtin-rules INSTALL_HDR_PATH=$BUILD/usr \
>> 	ARCH=arm64 -C ../../.. headers_install
>> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/crimar01/ARM/dev/src/pdsw/linux'
>> make[2]: Entering directory '/home/crimar01/ARM/dev/src/pdsw/out_linux'
>>   INSTALL /kselftest/usr/include
>> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/kselftest’: Permission denied
>> /home/crimar01/ARM/dev/src/pdsw/linux/Makefile:1187: recipe for target 'headers_install' failed
>> make[2]: *** [headers_install] Error 1
>> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/crimar01/ARM/dev/src/pdsw/out_linux'
>> Makefile:179: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed
>> make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/crimar01/ARM/dev/src/pdsw/linux'
>> Makefile:142: recipe for target 'khdr' failed
>> make: *** [khdr] Error 2
>>
>>
> ...
>> Any thoughts ? ... or am I missing something ?
> 
> You're not missing anything, this is broken.
Thanks for the feedback !

Cristian

> 
>> (I think I'm starting to see this in latest CI linaro kselftest while they cross-compile for arm64)
> 
> It just hit my travis jobs when I merged up to master:
> 
>   https://travis-ci.org/linuxppc/linux/jobs/617482001
> 
> Shuah can we please get this reverted?
> 
> cheers
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-27 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-12 16:33 kselftest: failed to build with -C tool/testing/selftests when KBUILD_OUTPUT is set Cristian Marussi
2019-11-27  3:54 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-11-27 10:54   ` Cristian Marussi [this message]
2019-11-27 16:04     ` shuah
2019-11-27 16:23       ` Cristian Marussi
2019-11-27 16:42         ` shuah
2019-11-27 16:53           ` Cristian Marussi
2019-11-27 17:32             ` shuah
2019-11-27 17:57               ` Tim.Bird
2019-11-27 18:16                 ` shuah
2019-11-27 18:48                   ` Cristian Marussi
2019-11-28  4:17                 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-11-28  4:20           ` Michael Ellerman
2019-11-28 23:33             ` shuah

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