Re: Linux 5.6-rc1 kselftest build failures

[shuah]

On 2/12/20 7:09 AM, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> Hi Shuah,
>
> On 2/12/20 12:35 AM, shuah wrote:
> > The following tests fail to build on x86_64
> [..]
> > timerns:
> >
> > tools/testing/selftests/timens'
> > gcc -Wall -Werror -pthread -lrt -ldl timens.c -o
> > tools/testing/selftests/timens/timens
> > /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccGy5CST.o: in function `check_config_posix_timers':
> > timens.c:(.text+0x65a): undefined reference to `timer_create'
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> I've just send a patch to fix it:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200212140040.126747-1-dima@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Could you try it?

Yup. Works, responsed to the patch thread.

> Also, it seems that the same thing affects futex/rtc/tcp_mmap/tcp_inq tests?
>
> While looking into this, I see there are new auto-generated lkmdtm &&
> pidfd tests, is it worth to add them to .gitignore?

Thanks for finding. Yes please send a patch for this.

thanks,
-- Shuah