Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:20:05 +0900 | From | Masami Hiramatsu <> | Subject | Re: Re: [PATCH ftrace/core v6 5/5] kselftest, ftrace: Add ftrace IPMODIFY flag test |
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(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
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