Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751057AbaKYOmo (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:42:44 -0500 Received: from lists.s-osg.org ([54.187.51.154]:60539 "EHLO lists.s-osg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750850AbaKYOmn (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:42:43 -0500 Message-ID: <5474955A.5070605@osg.samsung.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:42:34 -0700 From: Shuah Khan Organization: Samsung Open Source Group User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Masami Hiramatsu CC: Steven Rostedt , Josh Poimboeuf , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Jiri Kosina , Seth Jennings , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Petr Mladek , Vojtech Pavlik , Namhyung Kim , Miroslav Benes , Ingo Molnar , Shuah Khan Subject: Re: [PATCH ftrace/core v6 5/5] kselftest, ftrace: Add ftrace IPMODIFY flag test References: <20141121102502.11844.82696.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20141121102537.11844.9781.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20141121160329.575fd043@gandalf.local.home> <54729CDE.5030700@hitachi.com> <20141123232932.1ed70d18@gandalf.local.home> <54733C80.6060509@hitachi.com> <54735A4F.8090602@osg.samsung.com> <5473D9F6.8070701@hitachi.com> In-Reply-To: <5473D9F6.8070701@hitachi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 thanks, -- Shuah -- Shuah Khan Sr. Linux Kernel Developer Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley) shuahkh@osg.samsung.com | (970) 217-8978 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/