On 12/9/23 7:01 AM, John Hubbard wrote:
> This reverts commit 9fc96c7c19df ("selftests: error out if kernel header
> files are not yet built").
I don't think whole of this commit needs to be reverted. Lets leave the
warning message as it is and just remove the condition to abort the
compilation.

> 
> It turns out that requiring the kernel headers to be built as a
> prerequisite to building selftests, does not work in many cases. For
> example, Peter Zijlstra writes:
> 
> "My biggest beef with the whole thing is that I simply do not want to use
> 'make headers', it doesn't work for me.
> 
> I have a ton of output directories and I don't care to build tools into
> the output dirs, in fact some of them flat out refuse to work that way
> (bpf comes to mind)." [1]
> 
> Therefore, stop erroring out on the selftests build. Additional patches
> will be required in order to change over to not requiring the kernel
> headers.
> 
> [1] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
> 
> Cc: Anders Roxell <[email protected]>
> Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Xu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
> Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 21 +----------------
>  tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk   | 40 +++-----------------------------
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile 
> b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
> index 3b2061d1c1a5..8247a7c69c36 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
> @@ -155,12 +155,10 @@ ifneq ($(KBUILD_OUTPUT),)
>    abs_objtree := $(realpath $(abs_objtree))
>    BUILD := $(abs_objtree)/kselftest
>    KHDR_INCLUDES := -isystem ${abs_objtree}/usr/include
> -  KHDR_DIR := ${abs_objtree}/usr/include
>  else
>    BUILD := $(CURDIR)
>    abs_srctree := $(shell cd $(top_srcdir) && pwd)
>    KHDR_INCLUDES := -isystem ${abs_srctree}/usr/include
> -  KHDR_DIR := ${abs_srctree}/usr/include
>    DEFAULT_INSTALL_HDR_PATH := 1
>  endif
>  
> @@ -174,7 +172,7 @@ export KHDR_INCLUDES
>  # all isn't the first target in the file.
>  .DEFAULT_GOAL := all
>  
> -all: kernel_header_files
> +all:
>       @ret=1;                                                 \
>       for TARGET in $(TARGETS); do                            \
>               BUILD_TARGET=$$BUILD/$$TARGET;                  \
> @@ -185,23 +183,6 @@ all: kernel_header_files
>               ret=$$((ret * $$?));                            \
>       done; exit $$ret;
>  
> -kernel_header_files:
> -     @ls $(KHDR_DIR)/linux/*.h >/dev/null 2>/dev/null;                       
>    \
> -     if [ $$? -ne 0 ]; then                                                  
>    \
> -            RED='\033[1;31m';                                                
>   \
> -            NOCOLOR='\033[0m';                                               
>   \
> -            echo;                                                            
>   \
> -            echo -e "$${RED}error$${NOCOLOR}: missing kernel header files."; 
>   \
> -            echo "Please run this and try again:";                           
>   \
> -            echo;                                                            
>   \
> -            echo "    cd $(top_srcdir)";                                     
>   \
> -            echo "    make headers";                                         
>   \
> -            echo;                                                            
>   \
> -         exit 1;                                                             
>    \
> -     fi
> -
> -.PHONY: kernel_header_files
> -
>  run_tests: all
>       @for TARGET in $(TARGETS); do \
>               BUILD_TARGET=$$BUILD/$$TARGET;  \
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk b/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
> index 118e0964bda9..aa646e0661f3 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
> @@ -44,26 +44,10 @@ endif
>  selfdir = $(realpath $(dir $(filter %/lib.mk,$(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
>  top_srcdir = $(selfdir)/../../..
>  
> -ifeq ("$(origin O)", "command line")
> -  KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(O)
> +ifeq ($(KHDR_INCLUDES),)
> +KHDR_INCLUDES := -isystem $(top_srcdir)/usr/include
>  endif
>  
> -ifneq ($(KBUILD_OUTPUT),)
> -  # Make's built-in functions such as $(abspath ...), $(realpath ...) cannot
> -  # expand a shell special character '~'. We use a somewhat tedious way here.
> -  abs_objtree := $(shell cd $(top_srcdir) && mkdir -p $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && cd 
> $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && pwd)
> -  $(if $(abs_objtree),, \
> -    $(error failed to create output directory "$(KBUILD_OUTPUT)"))
> -  # $(realpath ...) resolves symlinks
> -  abs_objtree := $(realpath $(abs_objtree))
> -  KHDR_DIR := ${abs_objtree}/usr/include
> -else
> -  abs_srctree := $(shell cd $(top_srcdir) && pwd)
> -  KHDR_DIR := ${abs_srctree}/usr/include
> -endif
> -
> -KHDR_INCLUDES := -isystem $(KHDR_DIR)
> -
>  # The following are built by lib.mk common compile rules.
>  # TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS should be used by tests that require
>  # custom build rule and prevent common build rule use.
> @@ -74,25 +58,7 @@ TEST_GEN_PROGS := $(patsubst 
> %,$(OUTPUT)/%,$(TEST_GEN_PROGS))
>  TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED := $(patsubst 
> %,$(OUTPUT)/%,$(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED))
>  TEST_GEN_FILES := $(patsubst %,$(OUTPUT)/%,$(TEST_GEN_FILES))
>  
> -all: kernel_header_files $(TEST_GEN_PROGS) $(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED) \
> -     $(TEST_GEN_FILES)
> -
> -kernel_header_files:
> -     @ls $(KHDR_DIR)/linux/*.h >/dev/null 2>/dev/null;                      \
> -     if [ $$? -ne 0 ]; then                                                 \
> -            RED='\033[1;31m';                                                
>   \
> -            NOCOLOR='\033[0m';                                               
>   \
> -            echo;                                                            
>   \
> -            echo -e "$${RED}error$${NOCOLOR}: missing kernel header files."; 
>   \
> -            echo "Please run this and try again:";                           
>   \
> -            echo;                                                            
>   \
> -            echo "    cd $(top_srcdir)";                                     
>   \
> -            echo "    make headers";                                         
>   \
> -            echo;                                                            
>   \
> -         exit 1; \
> -     fi
> -
> -.PHONY: kernel_header_files
> +all: $(TEST_GEN_PROGS) $(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED) $(TEST_GEN_FILES)
>  
>  define RUN_TESTS
>       BASE_DIR="$(selfdir)";                  \

-- 
BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum

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