As per a discussion with Muhammad Usama Anjum [1], the following is how one is supposed to build selftests:
make headers && make -C tools/testing/selftests/mm
Change the selftest build system's lib.mk to fail out with a helpful message if that prerequisite "make headers" has not been done yet.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/bf910fa5-0c96-3707-cce4-5bcc656b6274@collabora.c...
Cc: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum usama.anjum@collabora.com Cc: Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Hubbard jhubbard@nvidia.com --- tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk b/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk index 05400462c779..b8ea03b9a015 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk @@ -44,10 +44,22 @@ endif selfdir = $(realpath $(dir $(filter %/lib.mk,$(MAKEFILE_LIST)))) top_srcdir = $(selfdir)/../../..
-ifeq ($(KHDR_INCLUDES),) -KHDR_INCLUDES := -isystem $(top_srcdir)/usr/include +ifneq ($(KBUILD_OUTPUT),) + # Make's built-in functions such as $(abspath ...), $(realpath ...) cannot + # expand a shell special character '~'. We use a somewhat tedious way here. + abs_objtree := $(shell cd $(top_srcdir) && mkdir -p $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && cd $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && pwd) + $(if $(abs_objtree),, \ + $(error failed to create output directory "$(KBUILD_OUTPUT)")) + # $(realpath ...) resolves symlinks + abs_objtree := $(realpath $(abs_objtree)) + KHDR_DIR := ${abs_objtree}/usr/include +else + abs_srctree := $(shell cd $(top_srcdir) && pwd) + KHDR_DIR := ${abs_srctree}/usr/include endif
+KHDR_INCLUDES := -isystem $(KHDR_DIR) + # The following are built by lib.mk common compile rules. # TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS should be used by tests that require # custom build rule and prevent common build rule use. @@ -58,7 +70,25 @@ TEST_GEN_PROGS := $(patsubst %,$(OUTPUT)/%,$(TEST_GEN_PROGS)) TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED := $(patsubst %,$(OUTPUT)/%,$(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED)) TEST_GEN_FILES := $(patsubst %,$(OUTPUT)/%,$(TEST_GEN_FILES))
-all: $(TEST_GEN_PROGS) $(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED) $(TEST_GEN_FILES) +all: kernel_header_files $(TEST_GEN_PROGS) $(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED) \ + $(TEST_GEN_FILES) + +kernel_header_files: + @ls $(KHDR_DIR)/linux/*.h >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; \ + if [ $$? -ne 0 ]; then \ + RED='\033[1;31m'; \ + NOCOLOR='\033[0m'; \ + echo; \ + echo -e "$${RED}error$${NOCOLOR}: missing kernel header files."; \ + echo "Please run this and try again:"; \ + echo; \ + echo " cd $(top_srcdir)"; \ + echo " make headers"; \ + echo; \ + exit 1; \ + fi + +.PHONY: kernel_header_files
define RUN_TESTS BASE_DIR="$(selfdir)"; \