linux/tools
John Hubbard efc9511cec selftests/vm: fix false build success on the second and later attempts
Patch series "selftests/vm: fix some minor aggravating factors in the Makefile".

This fixes a couple of minor aggravating factors that I ran across while
trying to do some changes in selftests/vm.  These are simple things, but
like most things with GNU Make, it's rarely obvious what's wrong until you
understand *the entire Makefile and all of its includes*.

So while there is, of course, joy in learning those details, I thought I'd
fix these little things, so as to allow others to skip out on the Joy if
they so choose.  :)

First of all, if you have an item (let's choose userfaultfd for an
example) that fails to build, you might do this:

$ make -j32

    # ...you observe a failed item in the threaded output

# OK, let's get a closer look

$ make
    # ...but now the build quietly "succeeds".

That's what Patch 0001 fixes.

Second, if you instead attempt this approach for your closer look (a casual
mistake, as it's not supported):

$ make userfaultfd

    # ...userfaultfd fails to link, due to incomplete LDLIBS

That's what Patch 0002 fixes.

This patch (of 2):

If one or more of these selftest fail to build, then after the first
failure, subsequent invocations of "make" will make it appear that there
are no build failures, after all.

That's because the failed build products remain, with up-to-date
timestamps, thus tricking Make (and you!) into believing that there's
nothing else to build.

Fix this by telling Make to delete targets that didn't completely
succeed.

Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915012901.1655280-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915012901.1655280-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-10-13 18:38:31 -07:00
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accounting
arch x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}() 2020-10-06 11:18:04 +02:00
bootconfig tools/bootconfig: Add testcase for tailing space 2020-09-21 21:57:12 -04:00
bpf tools/bpftool: Support passing BPFTOOL_VERSION to make 2020-09-19 01:06:05 +02:00
build perf build-ids: Fall back to debuginfod query if debuginfo not found 2020-08-14 09:51:14 -03:00
cgroup blk-iocost: update iocost_monitor.py 2020-09-01 19:38:33 -06:00
debugging
edid
firewire
firmware
gpio tools: gpio: add debounce support to gpio-event-mon 2020-09-30 10:57:30 +02:00
hv tools: hv: change http to https in hv_kvp_daemon.c 2020-07-06 10:46:23 +00:00
iio
include Merge branch 'compat.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-10-12 16:44:57 -07:00
io_uring tools/io_uring: fix compile breakage 2020-09-21 07:50:58 -06:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib libbpf: Fix XDP program load regression for old kernels 2020-09-24 10:33:02 -07:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Expand the cheatsheet.txt notion of relaxed 2020-09-04 11:58:15 -07:00
nfsd
objtool This tree introduces static_call(), which is the idea of static_branch() 2020-10-12 13:58:15 -07:00
pci
pcmcia
perf Merge branch 'compat.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-10-12 16:44:57 -07:00
power notifier: Fix broken error handling pattern 2020-09-01 09:58:03 +02:00
scripts
spi spi: tools: Make default_tx/rx and input_tx static 2020-06-11 16:27:24 +01:00
testing selftests/vm: fix false build success on the second and later attempts 2020-10-13 18:38:31 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb tools: usb: move to tools buildsystem 2020-08-19 14:11:44 +02:00
virtio virtio: fixes, features 2020-08-11 14:34:17 -07:00
vm mm: Add PG_arch_2 page flag 2020-09-04 12:46:06 +01:00
wmi
Makefile bpf: Compile resolve_btfids tool at kernel compilation start 2020-07-13 10:42:02 -07:00