On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:51:29 +0000
Matt Evans <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
> 
> On 18/03/2026 22:55, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:25:18 -0700
> > Ted Logan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >   
> >> Also build vfio self-tests on aarch64 variants, in addition to arm64 and
> >> x86_64.
> >>
> >> Reported-by: Matt Evans <[email protected]>
> >> Closes: 
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ 
> >> ---
> >> Signed-off-by: Ted Logan <[email protected]>  
> > 
> > Careful, this is a good way to get your Sign-off lost in the tooling.
> >   
> >> ---
> >>  tools/testing/selftests/vfio/Makefile | 2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vfio/Makefile 
> >> b/tools/testing/selftests/vfio/Makefile
> >> index 8e90e409e91d..98bc8d6271a4 100644
> >> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vfio/Makefile
> >> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vfio/Makefile
> >> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> >> -ARCH ?= $(shell uname -m)
> >> +ARCH ?= $(shell uname -m | sed -e 's/aarch64.*/arm64/')  
> > 
> > Are we intentionally enabling aarch64_be with this glob or is that just
> > carry-over from similar in the mm selftest Makefile?
> > 
> > Big endian ARM64 support is really not on my radar for vfio, but it
> > wouldn't be our first foray into big endian systems.
> > 
> > If it wasn't intentional, maybe just add "aarch64" to the below filter
> > list directly.  Thanks,  
> 
> I think that won't work for cross-builds passing in ARCH=arm64 "from
> above".  We can just drop the `.*` part of the sed regexp, giving
> ARCH=arm64 or arm64_be (the latter would fail to match in the filter below).
  
> >>  ifeq (,$(filter $(ARCH),arm64 x86_64))

Sorry, I don't fully follow.  If we expand the above "arm64 x86_64" to
include "aarch64" rather than distill the latter into "arm64", how does
that break the cross-builds?  Thanks,

Alex

> >>  # Do nothing on unsupported architectures
> >>
> >> ---
> >> base-commit: 96ca4caf9066f5ebd35b561a521af588a8eb0215
> >> change-id: 20260317-vfio-selftests-aarch64-636abf0f7674
> >>
> >> Best regards,  
> >   
> 
> 


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