From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752245AbaKZHUP (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2014 02:20:15 -0500 Received: from mail7.hitachi.co.jp ([133.145.228.42]:38738 "EHLO mail7.hitachi.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751141AbaKZHUN (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2014 02:20:13 -0500 Message-ID: <54757F25.80005@hitachi.com> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:20:05 +0900 From: Masami Hiramatsu Organization: Hitachi, Ltd., Japan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shuah Khan Cc: Steven Rostedt , Josh Poimboeuf , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Jiri Kosina , Seth Jennings , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Petr Mladek , Vojtech Pavlik , Namhyung Kim , Miroslav Benes , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH ftrace/core v6 5/5] kselftest, ftrace: Add ftrace IPMODIFY flag test References: <20141121102502.11844.82696.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20141121102537.11844.9781.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20141121160329.575fd043@gandalf.local.home> <54729CDE.5030700@hitachi.com> <20141123232932.1ed70d18@gandalf.local.home> <54733C80.6060509@hitachi.com> <54735A4F.8090602@osg.samsung.com> <5473D9F6.8070701@hitachi.com> <5474955A.5070605@osg.samsung.com> <547495D7.40308@osg.samsung.com> In-Reply-To: <547495D7.40308@osg.samsung.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (2014/11/25 23:44), Shuah Khan wrote: > On 11/25/2014 07:42 AM, Shuah Khan wrote: >> On 11/24/2014 06:23 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >>> (2014/11/25 1:18), Shuah Khan wrote: >>>> On 11/24/2014 07:11 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >>>>> (CC'ed Shuah, since this is related to kselftest) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> So, if your server directory is mounted with noexec, it's an environmental >>>>> problem. I guess you can not build any kernel drivers on that testbox, can you? >>>>> >>>>> Anyway, this gives us a good question, "should test binaries be made by >>>>> server or client(testbox) environment?" This ipmodify driver is a binary >>>>> and it should be built with the kernel binary (by server) I think. >>>>> But yes, I missed the Makefile didn't allow that (this always referred >>>>> installed running kernel builddir). >>>>> >>>>> I hope to have CONFIG_KSELFTEST_BINARIES for Kconfig, or make prep_kselftest >>>>> target to build these binaries with kernel... >>>>> >>>>> Shuah, what would you think about this? >>>> >>>> I am working on patch series to add an install target to the >>>> main kernel makefile, so these tests can be built and installed >>>> on a target just like we do with kernel and modules. I hope to >>>> get this in 3.19 or definitely into 3.20 >>>> >>>> This probably will help address the problem you are seeing. >>>> Install target is needed for qemu type environments as well. >>> >>> Yes, that is what we need for this test case! >>> Please CC to me when sending the series. I'd like to try and >>> know how it works :) >>> >> >> Good. Please take a look at this thread and give it a try. Please >> give me feedback as well. This is the first step to get the install >> feature added and then we can refine it at the selftests level as >> needed. >> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/11/851 OK, I'll try that. BTW, are those patches included in the below kernel.org tree ? https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest.git/ > Forgot to mention I didn't include ftrace in this first series for > install, planning to add it in my next round of patches. I have the > code ready for to do that. No problem, I'll wait for your series :) Thank you, -- Masami HIRAMATSU Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com