On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 12:52 PM Sean Christopherson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2026, David Matlack wrote: > > On 2026-04-27 06:55 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2026, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > Even though this is a 64 bit build. > > > > > > Heh, it's much funnier when it's happening to someone else. :-) > > > > > > KVM selftests went through these exact pains. I'm pretty sure these are > > > the > > > relevant commits (the empty targets one may or may not apply to VFIO). > > > > > > 9af04539d474dda4984ff4909d4568e6123c8cba KVM: selftests: Override ARCH > > > for x86_64 instead of using ARCH_DIR > > > 67730e6c53d70fb31618230f81c4acee9f72eaa3 KVM: selftests: Use canonical > > > $(ARCH) paths for KVM selftests directories > > > 43fbd8cd389faa9760c5152b1c58e893c812953b KVM: selftests: Provide empty > > > 'all' and 'clean' targets for unsupported ARCHs > > > > KVM selftests don't prevent 32-bit x86 builds though, > > Yes they do? x86 is an alias for x86_64 (or vice versa), and so the i386 > target > gets binned into the empty target provided by > tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile. > And KVM selftests most definitely don't play nice with 32-bit.
Are you sure that x86 is an alias for x86_64? If it is then we don't even need the __LP64__ stuff I posted. But when I look at the top-level Makefile and imagine running make without setting ARCH on the command line on a 32-bit x86 host, ARCH will be set to SUBARCH, which will be x86.

