(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...@hitachi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/