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From:   Pintu Kumar <pintu.ping@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 1 Nov 2017 21:56:22 +0530
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Subject: Re: [lkp-robot] [android/ion] 5fb70554d6: kernel_selftests.android.make_fail
To:     shuah@kernel.org
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        kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>,
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        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        dvhart@infradead.org,
        Bamvor Zhang Jian <bamvor.zhangjian@linaro.org>,
        Pintu Kumar <pintu_agarwal@yahoo.com>, lkp@01.org,
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On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> wrote:
> On 11/01/2017 04:12 AM, Pintu Kumar wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 3:28 AM, Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/31/2017 03:21 AM, Pintu Kumar wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 2:32 AM, Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 10/30/2017 12:12 AM, Pintu Kumar wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 7:51 PM, kernel test robot
>>>>>> <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-6):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> commit: 5fb70554d68e2ea032b6a28b082801d8b7b76cb8 ("android/ion: userspace test utility for ion buffer sharing")
>>>>>>> url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Pintu-Agarwal/android-ion-userspace-test-utility-for-ion-buffer-sharing/20171025-022548
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> in testcase: kernel_selftests
>>>>>>> with following parameters:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> test-description: The kernel contains a set of "self tests" under the tools/testing/selftests/ directory. These are intended to be small unit tests to exercise individual code paths in the kernel.
>>>>>>> test-url: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kselftest.txt
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> on test machine: 88 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz with 64G memory
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> KERNEL SELFTESTS: linux_headers_dir is /usr/src/linux-headers-x86_64-rhel-7.2-5fb70554d68e2ea032b6a28b082801d8b7b76cb8
>>>>>>> 2017-10-26 22:18:16 ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-5 /usr/bin/gcc
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2017-10-26 22:18:16 make run_tests -C android
>>>>>>> make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-selftests-x86_64-rhel-7.2-5fb70554d68e2ea032b6a28b082801d8b7b76cb8/tools/testing/selftests/android'
>>>>>>> make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-selftests-x86_64-rhel-7.2-5fb70554d68e2ea032b6a28b082801d8b7b76cb8/tools/testing/selftests/android/ion'
>>>>>>> gcc  -I../../../../../drivers/staging/android/uapi/ -Wall -O2 -g    ionapp_export.c ipcsocket.c ionutils.c   -o ionapp_export
>>>>>>> In file included from ionapp_export.c:28:0:
>>>>>>> ionutils.h:4:17: fatal error: ion.h: No such file or directory
>>>>>>> compilation terminated.
>>>>>>> In file included from ionutils.c:9:0:
>>>>>>> ionutils.h:4:17: fatal error: ion.h: No such file or directory
>>>>>>> compilation terminated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This utility requires ion.h header file which should be included from
>>>>>> kernel source tree: drivers/staging/android/ion/uapi/
>>>>>> This is already mentioned in the ion/Makefile
>>>>>> Looks like this ion.h is not getting included inside the linux_headers_dir ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Shall I include the ion.h locally in my selftests?
>>>>>> Or, is there a better way to include the header directly...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't reproduce this in any of my environments but if I had to guess,
>>>>> it's because you have
>>>>>
>>>>> #include "ion.h"
>>>>>
>>>>> which is supposed to look in the local path.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't think this is the problem.
>>>> It just means, first it will look into the local path, then it will
>>>> look into the include path which is specified in the Makefile.
>>>> And, in the Makefile I have already included the path where it exists.
>>>> INCLUDEDIR := -I../../../../../drivers/staging/android/uapi/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ah yeah you are right
>>>
>>>> I think the problem is in general, and not specific to this test.
>>>> Because, when I manually try to install the kernel headers, I could
>>>> not find the "ion.h" there, or none of the headers from
>>>> drivers/staging/android/
>>>> # make headers_install ARCH=i386 INSTALL_HDR_PATH=../headers/
>>>>
>>>> But, I can see the drivers/android/ header files.
>>>>
>>>> Now the question is, how to include the header files from staging
>>>> folder to kernel headers ?
>>>>
>>>> As per reference from some other selftests (such as: gpio/Makefile,
>>>> vm/Makefile, etc.), I also tried the following.
>>>>
>>>> ../../../../../drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h:
>>>>         make -C ../../../../.. headers_install
>>>> INSTALL_HDR_PATH=$(shell pwd)/../../../../usr/
>>>>
>>>> But this also does not help in installing the ion.h header file in
>>>> kernel_header path.
>>>>
>>>> Any other pointers to fix this issue ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The staging uapi headers don't look to be installed with the
>>> standard install command. This makes sense given that staging
>>> drivers are well staging and not yet stable.
>>>
>>> The tools/gpio Makefile seems to do this trick to allow compilation
>>> outside the kernel tree (it is a dependency for the gpio selftest)
>>>
>>> #
>>> # We need the following to be outside of kernel tree
>>> #
>>> $(OUTPUT)include/linux/gpio.h: ../../include/uapi/linux/gpio.h
>>>         mkdir -p $(OUTPUT)include/linux 2>&1 || true
>>>         ln -sf $(CURDIR)/../../include/uapi/linux/gpio.h $@
>>>
>>> prepare: $(OUTPUT)include/linux/gpio.h
>>>
>>
>> I tried something similar, but it did not help.
>> Or may be I could not understand how to incorporate this into my code
>> to make it work.
>> Basically, when I do make in gpio, it automatically does this using:
>> make -C headers_install.
>> But in my case, this command is not getting invoked, using the following:
>> ../../../../../drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h:
>>         make -C ../../../../.. headers_install
>> INSTALL_HDR_PATH=$(shell pwd)/../../../../usr/
>>
>>
>> https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelHeaders
>> It says:
>> [The correct way to address this problem is to isolate the specific
>> interfaces that you need, e.g. a single header file that is patched in
>> a new kernel providing the ioctl numbers for a character device used
>> by your program. In your own program, add a copy of that source file,
>> with a notice that it should be kept in sync with new kernel
>> versions.]
>>
>> According to this, it looks like we should maintain the local copy of
>> the header file, until it is available.
>> I also saw a similar approach in other selftests.
>>
>> So, for time being shall I create a local copy of ion.h ?
>>
>
> Sorry. I am late in responding.
>
>>
>>> Maybe something like that needs to happen here unless Shuah has
>>> any better ideas for headers?
>>>
>
> Since staging headers aren't included in the headers install for good
> reasons, I have two suggestions:
>
> 1. Use bpf as an example:
>
> You will find a local include/uapi under bpf and the Makefile looks
> there first for headers.
>
> Also, as Greg suggested, please add comments to indicate that this
> header needs to be kept in sync with one from staging.
>
> This does make a copy of the header which isn't great.
>
> 2. Add a include line in the Makefile directly to point to the uapi
>
> drivers/staging/android/uapi
>
> The downside to this approach is if selftests are built outside the
> tree, then that would be a problem. However, being able to build selftests
> outside the tree requires creating a tarball of the sources first. This
> header could be added for that special case.
>
> I would recommend option 2 to go forward and if that doesn't work, we can
> refine it.

Thank you for your reply and suggestions.
The option 2 is already present, if you see my Makefile.
But this option does not work if built outside the kernel source tree.
So, I am trying to maintain a local copy of ion.h

>
> thanks,
> -- Shuah
>
>

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