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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com,
	nickhu@andestech.com, green.hu@gmail.com, deanbo422@gmail.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, yury.norov@gmail.com,
	ojeda@kernel.org, ndesaulniers@gooogle.com, joe@perches.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] refactor the ringtest testing for ptr_ring
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 21:36:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YONRKnDzCzSAXptx@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210705142555-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>

On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 02:26:32PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 08:06:50PM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> > On 2021/7/5 17:56, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 11:57:33AM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> > >> tools/include/* have a lot of abstract layer for building
> > >> kernel code from userspace, so reuse or add the abstract
> > >> layer in tools/include/ to build the ptr_ring for ringtest
> > >> testing.
> > > 
> > > ...
> > > 
> > >>  create mode 100644 tools/include/asm/cache.h
> > >>  create mode 100644 tools/include/asm/processor.h
> > >>  create mode 100644 tools/include/generated/autoconf.h
> > >>  create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/align.h
> > >>  create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/cache.h
> > >>  create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/slab.h
> > > 
> > > Maybe somebody can change this to be able to include in-tree headers directly?
> > 
> > If the above works, maybe the files in tools/include/* is not
> > necessary any more, just use the in-tree headers to compile
> > the user space app?
> > 
> > Or I missed something here?
> 
> why would it work? kernel headers outside of uapi are not
> intended to be consumed by userspace.

The problem here, that we are almost getting two copies of the headers, and
tools are not in a good maintenance, so it's often desynchronized from the
actual Linux headers. This will become more and more diverse if we keep same
way of operation. So, I would rather NAK any new copies of the headers from
include/ to tools/include.

> > > Besides above, had you tested this with `make O=...`?
> > 
> > You are right, the generated/autoconf.h is in another directory
> > with `make O=...`.
> > 
> > Any nice idea to fix the above problem?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-05 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-05  3:57 [PATCH net-next 0/2] refactor the ringtest testing for ptr_ring Yunsheng Lin
2021-07-05  3:57 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] tools: add missing infrastructure for building ptr_ring.h Yunsheng Lin
2021-07-05 18:39   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-07-06  2:04     ` Yunsheng Lin
2021-07-18  2:09       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-07-19  1:40         ` Yunsheng Lin
2021-07-19 11:58           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-07-05  3:57 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] tools/virtio: use common infrastructure to build ptr_ring.h Yunsheng Lin
2021-07-05  9:56 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] refactor the ringtest testing for ptr_ring Andy Shevchenko
2021-07-05 12:06   ` Yunsheng Lin
2021-07-05 14:57     ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-07-05 18:26     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-07-05 18:36       ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2021-07-05 18:42         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-07-05 19:05           ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-07-05 19:31             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-07-06  1:35             ` Yunsheng Lin

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