Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests: cgroup: build error multiple outpt files

[Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>]

On 12/1/21 6:06 AM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 09:41:49AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> On 11/23/21 7:26 AM, Christian Brauner wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 05:22:20PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
>>>> On 11/5/21 10:25 AM, Anders Roxell wrote:
>>>>> When building selftests/cgroup: with clang the following error are seen:
>>>>>
>>>>> clang -Wall -pthread    test_memcontrol.c cgroup_util.c ../clone3/clone3_selftests.h  -o /home/anders/.cache/tuxmake/builds/current/kselftest/cgroup/test_memcontrol
>>>>> clang: error: cannot specify -o when generating multiple output files
>>>>> make[3]: *** [../lib.mk:146: /home/anders/.cache/tuxmake/builds/current/kselftest/cgroup/test_memcontrol] Error 1
>>>>>
>>>>> Rework to add the header files to LOCAL_HDRS before including ../lib.mk,
>>>>> since the dependency is evaluated in '$(OUTPUT)/%:%.c $(LOCAL_HDRS)' in
>>>>> file lib.mk.
>>>>>
>>>>> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>     tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/Makefile | 12 +++++++-----
>>>>>     tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk          |  2 +-
>>>>>     2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/Makefile
>>>>> index 59e222460581..745fe25fa0b9 100644
>>>>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/Makefile
>>>>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/Makefile
>>>>> @@ -11,10 +11,12 @@ TEST_GEN_PROGS += test_core
>>>>>     TEST_GEN_PROGS += test_freezer
>>>>>     TEST_GEN_PROGS += test_kill
>>>>> +LOCAL_HDRS += $(selfdir)/clone3/clone3_selftests.h $(selfdir)/pidfd/pidfd.h
>>>>> +
>>>>
>>>> This looks odd to me. Why are we introducing dependencies between tests?
>>>> clone3 includes in cgroup? Looks odd to me.
>>>
>>> The cgroup tests need access to clone3() functionality in order to test
>>> CLONE_INTO_CGROUP which is more suited to be placed alongside the cgroup
>>> tests. There are a few other tests that include the clone3 header.
>>>
>>
>> If other tests are also including this header, we could move it up under
>> selftests level. Might have to add include directory.
> 
> No objection from me if that's useful. I won't have time for that in the
> near future. (This might be of interest for one of the LF programs that
> help get new folks interested in kernel development started.)
> 
> Christian
> 

Thanks. I will apply this fix for now.

thanks,
-- Shuah