Re: [PATCH 2/8] selftests/vm: use a common gup_test.h

John Hubbard
2020-09-29T19:48:44Z

On 9/29/20 12:08 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 11:59:55AM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>> On 9/29/20 10:55 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:44:31AM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>>>> On 9/29/20 9:35 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:10:24PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>>>>>> On 9/28/20 5:57 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 11:21:53PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>> ...
>>>> I don't see any "gcc -m" type of dependency generation pass happening
>>>> in this relatively simple Make system.
>>>
>>> It happens with -MD, all the deps are stored in files like mm/.init-mm.o.cmd
>>> and sucked into the build.
>>
>> You are thinking of kbuild. This is not kbuild. There are no such artifacts
>> being generated.
>
> Oh. Really? That's horrible.
>

Well, yes, it's not a perfect build system down here in selftests/. Are you saying
that it is worth upgrading? I'm open to suggestions and ideas for improvements,
and at the moment, I have the miniature build system here mostly loaded into my
head. So for a brief shining moment I can probably understand it well enough to
work on it. :)

thanks,
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John Hubbard
NVIDIA