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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Cc: david@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	ljs@kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com,
	Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, vbabka@suse.cz, rppt@kernel.org,
	surenb@google.com, mhocko@suse.com, ziy@nvidia.com,
	baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, npache@redhat.com,
	ryan.roberts@arm.com, dev.jain@arm.com, baohua@kernel.org,
	lance.yang@linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 4/7] selftests: ksft_exit_fail_perror: support printf style arguments
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:09:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260331120902.4612d93efb89f71a0d79bb5b@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <acuijiUs81Z7qYSL@gmail.com>

On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:31:42 +0800 Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com> wrote:

> > -	ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s: %s (%d)\n", msg, strerror(errno), errno);
> > +	va_list args;
> > +	char *buf = NULL;
> > +	int saved_errno = errno;
> > +
> > +	va_start(args, msg);
> > +	if (vasprintf(&buf, msg, args) == -1) {
> 
> kernel test robot reported compile error on this, as the vasprintf
> required _GNU_SOURCE. Looks like it's not appropriate to be used
> in the common header. Looks like it can be replaced with a buf and
> vsnprintf instead.

I like vasprintf()!

"#define _GNU_SOURCE" occurs 402 times in selftests/, so perhaps we can
find a way to keep it?

(err, *why* 402 times?  Can't it be just once?)


  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-31 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-30 15:14 [PATCH v7 0/7] selftests/mm: skip several tests when thp is not available Chunyu Hu
2026-03-30 15:14 ` [PATCH v7 1/7] selftests/mm/guard-regions: skip collapse test when thp not enabled Chunyu Hu
2026-03-30 15:14 ` [PATCH v7 2/7] selftests/mm: soft-dirty: skip two tests when thp is not available Chunyu Hu
2026-03-30 15:14 ` [PATCH v7 3/7] selftests/mm: move write_file helper to vm_util Chunyu Hu
2026-03-30 15:15 ` [PATCH v7 4/7] selftests: ksft_exit_fail_perror: support printf style arguments Chunyu Hu
2026-03-31 10:31   ` Chunyu Hu
2026-03-31 19:09     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2026-04-01 13:32       ` Chunyu Hu
2026-04-01 11:03   ` Mark Brown
2026-04-01 12:08     ` Thomas Weißschuh
2026-04-02  1:16       ` Chunyu Hu
2026-04-01 13:46     ` Chunyu Hu
     [not found]       ` <20260401143831.31f40405758f78d7955ff6db@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-02  1:13         ` Chunyu Hu
2026-03-30 15:15 ` [PATCH v7 5/7] selftests/mm/vm_util: robust write_file() Chunyu Hu
2026-03-30 15:15 ` [PATCH v7 6/7] selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: skip the test when thp is not available Chunyu Hu
2026-03-30 15:15 ` [PATCH v7 7/7] selftests/mm: transhuge_stress: skip the test when thp " Chunyu Hu
2026-03-30 19:25 ` [PATCH v7 0/7] selftests/mm: skip several tests when thp is " Andrew Morton

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