Re: [PATCH] tools/testing/selftests/mm: add missing .gitignore entries

[Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 09:31:06PM -0700, Pratyush Mallick wrote:
> Thanks for the fix and apologies for missing it.

No worries, very easy to miss stuff with these :) thanks for cleaning this up,
it's MUCH better now...

>
> Regards,
> Pratyush
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 7:18 AM Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Commit 2bee308f3adb ("selftests/mm: use pattern matching in .gitignore")
> > switched to a pattern-matching mechanism to reduce churn in .gitignore.
> >
> > It however accidentally excluded the page_frag test's-generated module
> > intermediate C file with .mod.c extension, and also the local_config.h
> > header generated if liburing is available locally.
> >
> > Explicitly fix both the issues, fixing the module-generated C file as a
> > general pattern as these are always intermediate files that should be
> > ignored.
> >
> > Since this is a trivial .gitignore change it doesn't seem necessary to
> > treat it as a hotfix.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore
> > index fcd892ed21e3..a306d7754786 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore
> > @@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
> >  *
> >  !/**/
> >  !*.c
> > +*.mod.c
> >  !*.h
> > +local_config.h
> >  !*.sh
> >  !.gitignore
> >  !Makefile
> >
> > ---
> > base-commit: cee9395acd8043be0644b25c34bfa86623f2b935
> > change-id: 20260831-fix-mm-selftests-gitignore-dd389da72760
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >

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Cheers, Lorenzo