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 >
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. -- Shuah -- Shuah Khan Sr. Linux Kernel Developer Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley) [email protected] | (970) 217-8978 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
