Re: [RFC PATCH v2 7/7] powerpc/selftest: reuse ppc-opcode macros to avoid redundancy

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

Balamuruhan S <bala24@linux.ibm.com> writes:
> Avoid redefining macros to encode ppc instructions instead reuse it from
> ppc-opcode.h, Makefile changes are necessary to compile memcmp_64.S with
> __ASSEMBLY__ defined from selftests.
>
> Signed-off-by: Balamuruhan S <bala24@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  .../selftests/powerpc/stringloops/Makefile    | 34 ++++++++++++++----
>  .../powerpc/stringloops/asm/asm-const.h       |  1 +
>  .../powerpc/stringloops/asm/ppc-opcode.h      | 36 +------------------
>  3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>  create mode 120000 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/asm/asm-const.h
>  mode change 100644 => 120000 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/asm/ppc-opcode.h
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/Makefile
> index 7fc0623d85c3..efe76c5a5b94 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/Makefile
> @@ -1,26 +1,44 @@
>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>  # The loops are all 64-bit code
> -CFLAGS += -I$(CURDIR)
> +GIT_VERSION = $(shell git describe --always --long --dirty || echo "unknown")
> +CFLAGS += -DGIT_VERSION='"$(GIT_VERSION)"' -I$(CURDIR) -I$(CURDIR)/../include
>  
>  EXTRA_SOURCES := ../harness.c
>  
>  build_32bit = $(shell if ($(CC) $(CFLAGS) -m32 -o /dev/null memcmp.c >/dev/null 2>&1) then echo "1"; fi)
>  
> +ifneq ($(build_32bit),1)
>  TEST_GEN_PROGS := memcmp_64 strlen
> +TEST_GEN_FILES := memcmp.o memcmp_64.o memcmp_64
> +MEMCMP := $(OUTPUT)/memcmp.o
> +MEMCMP_64 := $(OUTPUT)/memcmp_64.o
> +HARNESS :=  $(OUTPUT)/../harness.o
> +CFLAGS += -m64 -maltivec
>  
> -$(OUTPUT)/memcmp_64: memcmp.c
> -$(OUTPUT)/memcmp_64: CFLAGS += -m64 -maltivec
> +OVERRIDE_TARGETS := 1
> +include ../../lib.mk
>  
> -ifeq ($(build_32bit),1)
> +$(OUTPUT)/memcmp_64: $(MEMCMP_64) $(MEMCMP) $(HARNESS)
> +	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) memcmp.o memcmp_64.o ../harness.o -o memcmp_64
> +
> +$(MEMCMP_64): memcmp_64.S
> +	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__ -o memcmp_64.o -c memcmp_64.S
> +
> +$(MEMCMP): memcmp.c
> +	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o memcmp.o -c memcmp.c
> +
> +$(HARNESS): $(EXTRA_SOURCES)
> +	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -DGIT_VERSION='"$(GIT_VERSION)"' -o ../harness.o -c $(EXTRA_SOURCES)

What are you actually trying to do here? Is it just that you need to
define __ASSEMBLY__ for memcmp_64.S?

What you have breaks the build, it's not respecting $(OUTPUT).

  make[2]: Entering directory '/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops'
  powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Werror -DGIT_VERSION='"v5.7-rc2-38-g2d7b142b5a96"' -I/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/include  -DGIT_VERSION='"v5.7-rc2-38-g2d7b142b5a96"' -I/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops -I/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/../include -m64 -maltivec -D__ASSEMBLY__ -o memcmp_64.o -c memcmp_64.S
  Assembler messages:
  Fatal error: can't create memcmp_64.o: Read-only file system
  make[2]: *** [Makefile:25: /output/kselftest/powerpc/stringloops/memcmp_64.o] Error 1
  powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Werror -DGIT_VERSION='"v5.7-rc2-38-g2d7b142b5a96"' -I/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/include  -DGIT_VERSION='"v5.7-rc2-38-g2d7b142b5a96"' -I/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops -I/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/../include -m64 -maltivec -o memcmp.o -c memcmp.c
  Assembler messages:
  Fatal error: can't create memcmp.o: Read-only file system
  make[2]: *** [Makefile:28: /output/kselftest/powerpc/stringloops/memcmp.o] Error 1
  powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Werror -DGIT_VERSION='"v5.7-rc2-38-g2d7b142b5a96"' -I/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/include  -DGIT_VERSION='"v5.7-rc2-38-g2d7b142b5a96"' -I/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops -I/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/../include -m64 -maltivec -DGIT_VERSION='"v5.7-rc2-38-g2d7b142b5a96"' -o ../harness.o -c ../harness.c
  Assembler messages:
  Fatal error: can't create ../harness.o: Read-only file system
  make[2]: *** [Makefile:31: /output/kselftest/powerpc/stringloops/../harness.o] Error 1


cheers