From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45328 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752855AbdLRN0o (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2017 08:26:44 -0500 Subject: Patch "userfaultfd: selftest: vm: allow to build in vm/ directory" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: aarcange@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alexander.levin@verizon.com, dgilbert@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com, mike.kravetz@oracle.com, rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, xemul@parallels.com Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:24:06 +0100 Message-ID: <1513603446125195@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled userfaultfd: selftest: vm: allow to build in vm/ directory to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: userfaultfd-selftest-vm-allow-to-build-in-vm-directory.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:12:34 CET 2017 From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:17:14 -0800 Subject: userfaultfd: selftest: vm: allow to build in vm/ directory From: Andrea Arcangeli [ Upstream commit 46aa6a302b53f543f8e8b8e1714dc5e449ad36a6 ] linux/tools/testing/selftests/vm $ make gcc -Wall -I ../../../../usr/include compaction_test.c -lrt -o /compaction_test /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot open output file /compaction_test: Permission denied collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [../lib.mk:54: /compaction_test] Error 1 Since commit a8ba798bc8ec ("selftests: enable O and KBUILD_OUTPUT") selftests/vm build fails if run from the "selftests/vm" directory, but it works in the selftests/ directory. It's quicker to be able to do a local vm-only build after a tree wipe and this patch allows for it again. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170302173738.18994-4-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Hillf Danton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ # Makefile for vm selftests +ifndef OUTPUT + OUTPUT := $(shell pwd) +endif + CFLAGS = -Wall -I ../../../../usr/include $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) BINARIES = compaction_test BINARIES += hugepage-mmap Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aarcange@redhat.com are queue-4.9/userfaultfd-selftest-vm-allow-to-build-in-vm-directory.patch queue-4.9/userfaultfd-shmem-__do_fault-requires-vm_fault_nopage.patch