Re: [PATCH v2] selftests: Add kselftest-all and kselftest-install targets

[Michael Ellerman]

Hi Shuah,

I know this has been merged already, so this is just FYI and in case it
helps anyone else who's tracking down build failures.

Sorry I didn't reply before you merged it, I was on leave.

Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Add kselftest-all target to build tests from the top level
> Makefile. This is to simplify kselftest use-cases for CI and
> distributions where build and test systems are different.
>
> Current kselftest target builds and runs tests on a development
> system which is a developer use-case.
>
> Add kselftest-install target to install tests from the top level
> Makefile. This is to simplify kselftest use-cases for CI and
> distributions where build and test systems are different.
>
> This change addresses requests from developers and testers to add
> support for installing kselftest from the main Makefile.
>
> In addition, make the install directory the same when install is
> run using "make kselftest-install" or by running kselftest_install.sh.
> Also fix the INSTALL_PATH variable conflict between main Makefile and
> selftests Makefile.
...
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
> index c3feccb99ff5..bad18145ed1a 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
> @@ -171,9 +171,12 @@ run_pstore_crash:
>  # 1. output_dir=kernel_src
>  # 2. a separate output directory is specified using O= KBUILD_OUTPUT
>  # 3. a separate output directory is specified using KBUILD_OUTPUT
> +# Avoid conflict with INSTALL_PATH set by the main Makefile
>  #
> -INSTALL_PATH ?= $(BUILD)/install
> -INSTALL_PATH := $(abspath $(INSTALL_PATH))
> +KSFT_INSTALL_PATH ?= $(BUILD)/kselftest_install

This change broke all my CI, because the tests no longer install in the
place it's expecting them :/

I can fix it by explicitly specifying the install path in my CI scripts.

> +KSFT_INSTALL_PATH := $(abspath $(KSFT_INSTALL_PATH))
> +# Avoid changing the rest of the logic here and lib.mk.
> +INSTALL_PATH := $(KSFT_INSTALL_PATH)

But because the over-rideable variable changed from INSTALL_PATH to
KSFT_INSTALL_PATH I will need to export both of them in order for my CI
to work with old and new kernels.

So to emulate the old behaviour for old & new kernels you need to do:

# export KSFT_INSTALL_PATH=install
# export INSTALL_PATH=install
# make -C tools/testing/selftests install


cheers