From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
brauner@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com,
lokeshgidra@google.com, peterx@redhat.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com,
hughd@google.com, mhocko@suse.com, axelrasmussen@google.com,
rppt@kernel.org, willy@infradead.org, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com,
jannh@google.com, zhangpeng362@huawei.com, bgeffon@google.com,
kaleshsingh@google.com, ngeoffray@google.com, jdduke@google.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@android.com, John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/5] selftests/mm: add UFFDIO_MOVE ioctl test
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:53:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ee5d68a-fa54-4ed6-bc41-2bff0d9eb12f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1368c558-c58c-4574-907e-36b07dee31bb@sirena.org.uk>
>> Further, the tests are closely related to the given kernel version, they are
>> not some completely separate tests.
>
> Note that there's a general desire for the tests to *run* with older
> kernels and use whatever feature test mechanisms exist to skip tests
> that won't run. That's often needed anyway for configurable things.
Agreed.
>
>> (3) avoids dirtying the tree as a "make headers_install" would, but it also
>> means that each test that makes use of new uapi has to update the relevant
>> headers (what people working on QEMU are used to).
>
> Note that you can do an out of tree build to avoid dirtying things.
Yes, but apparently the simple "make headers_install" will dirty the kernel.
See (and ideally comment on)
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231209020144.244759-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
--
Cheers,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-11 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-06 10:36 [PATCH v6 0/5] userfaultfd move option Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-12-06 10:36 ` [PATCH v6 1/5] mm/rmap: support move to different root anon_vma in folio_move_anon_rmap() Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-12-06 10:36 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] userfaultfd: UFFDIO_MOVE uABI Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-12-06 10:36 ` [PATCH v6 3/5] selftests/mm: call uffd_test_ctx_clear at the end of the test Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-12-06 10:36 ` [PATCH v6 4/5] selftests/mm: add uffd_test_case_ops to allow test case-specific operations Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-12-06 10:36 ` [PATCH v6 5/5] selftests/mm: add UFFDIO_MOVE ioctl test Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-12-10 14:23 ` Mark Brown
2023-12-11 1:01 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-12-11 3:04 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-12-11 11:15 ` Mark Brown
2023-12-11 12:03 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-12-11 12:24 ` Mark Brown
2023-12-11 16:15 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-12-11 16:25 ` Mark Brown
2023-12-11 16:29 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-12-11 16:34 ` Mark Brown
2023-12-11 16:43 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-12-11 16:32 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-12-11 16:41 ` Mark Brown
2023-12-11 16:53 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2023-12-11 17:32 ` Mark Brown
2023-12-11 18:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-12-11 20:01 ` Mark Brown
2023-12-11 20:11 ` John Hubbard
2023-12-12 15:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-12-12 19:39 ` Mark Brown
2023-12-11 18:46 ` John Hubbard
2023-12-11 20:21 ` Mark Brown
2023-12-11 20:29 ` John Hubbard
2023-12-12 15:12 ` Mark Brown
2023-12-13 2:14 ` John Hubbard
2023-12-13 3:58 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-12-13 5:52 ` John Hubbard
2023-12-13 5:55 ` John Hubbard
2023-12-13 9:59 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-12-13 22:01 ` John Hubbard
2023-12-14 9:02 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-12-13 14:00 ` Mark Brown
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