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From: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	David Verbeiren <david.verbeiren@tessares.net>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [5.4.y] selftests/bpf build broken by "bpf: Zero-fill..."
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 14:42:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201207224238.GA28646@ascalon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201204182846.27110-1-kamal@canonical.com>

On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 10:28:46AM -0800, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> Hi Sasha-
> 
> This v5.4.78 commit breaks the tools/testing/selftests/bpf build:
> 
> [linux-5.4.y] c602ad2b52dc bpf: Zero-fill re-used per-cpu map element
> 
> Like this:
> 
> 	prog_tests/map_init.c:5:10: fatal error: test_map_init.skel.h: No such file or directory
> 	    5 | #include "test_map_init.skel.h"
> 
> Because tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile in v5.4 does not have the
> "skeleton header generation" stuff (circa v5.6).
> 
> Reverting c602ad2b52dc from linux-5.4.y fixes it.

Another option would be to just drop the selftest from linux-5.4.y,
but keep the beneficial change to kernel/bpf/hashtab.c.

(We're leaning towards that approach for Ubuntu).

 -Kamal

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-04 18:28 [5.4.y] selftests/bpf build broken by "bpf: Zero-fill..." Kamal Mostafa
2020-12-07 22:42 ` Kamal Mostafa [this message]
2020-12-08  7:49   ` David Verbeiren
2020-12-08 14:53   ` Sasha Levin

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