Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] selftests/nolibc: fix up O= option support

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Fri Aug 04 2023 - 14:44:12 EST


On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 02:40:23AM +0800, Zhangjin Wu wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 07:51:50PM +0200, Thomas Wei?schuh wrote:
> > > On 2023-08-05 00:29:10+0800, Zhangjin Wu wrote:
> [...]
> > > > Do you mean here?
> > > >
> > > > # kernel image names by architecture
> > > > IMAGE_i386 = arch/x86/boot/bzImage
> > > > IMAGE_x86 = arch/x86/boot/bzImage
> > > > IMAGE_arm64 = arch/arm64/boot/Image
> > > > IMAGE_arm = arch/arm/boot/zImage
> > > > IMAGE_mips = vmlinuz
> > > > IMAGE_riscv = arch/riscv/boot/Image
> > > > IMAGE = $(IMAGE_$(ARCH))
> > > > IMAGE_NAME = $(notdir $(IMAGE))
> > > >
> > > > It does save another KERNEL_IMAGE macro in my future patch ;-)
> > > >
> > > > But without O=, OUTPUT is also empty like objtree and when empty, it is
> > > > assigned as $(CURDIR), not $(srctree) as we expected for IMAGE and .config. To
> > > > be cleaner, objtree should also be used:
> > > >
> > > > - IMAGE = $(IMAGE_$(ARCH))
> > > > + IMAGE = $(objtree)/$(IMAGE_$(ARCH))
> > > >
> > > > Is this what you want?
> > >
> > > More like:
> > >
> > > - $(Q)qemu-system-$(QEMU_ARCH) -display none -no-reboot -kernel "$(srctree)/$(IMAGE)" -serial stdio $(QEMU_ARGS) > "$(CURDIR)/run.out"
> > > + $(Q)qemu-system-$(QEMU_ARCH) -display none -no-reboot -kernel "$(OUTPUT)$(IMAGE)" -serial stdio $(QEMU_ARGS) > "$(CURDIR)/run.out"
> > >
> > > My assumption was that it's weird that we need to define such variables
> > > ourselves.
> > >
> > > Using an empty $(OUTPUT) would have been fine if make is run from the
> > > root of the kernel tree. But that is not the case.
> > >
> > > It still feels weird but I can't think of a nicer way, and it's not
> > > a big issue. So let's keep that part the same.
> > >
> > > Or maybe Willy has a better idea.
> >
> > I've just glanced over the discussion, but I'm wondering, why not
> > "$(objtree)/$(IMAGE)" instead ?
> >
>
> We used "$(objtree)/$(IMAGE)" originally, I thought of Thomas asked me to
> further add "$(objtree)" in the first place of IMAGE,
>
> - IMAGE = $(IMAGE_$(ARCH))
> + IMAGE = $(objtree)/$(IMAGE_$(ARCH))
>
> And then, we can use "IMAGE" directly in the qemu run & rerun targets:
>
> # run the tests after building the kernel
> run: kernel
> - $(Q)qemu-system-$(QEMU_ARCH) -display none -no-reboot -kernel "$(objtree)/$(IMAGE)" -serial stdio $(QEMU_ARGS) > "$(RUN_OUT)"
> + $(Q)qemu-system-$(QEMU_ARCH) -display none -no-reboot -kernel "$(IMAGE)" -serial stdio $(QEMU_ARGS) > "$(RUN_OUT)"
> $(Q)$(REPORT) "$(RUN_OUT)"
>
> # re-run the tests from an existing kernel
> rerun:
> - $(Q)qemu-system-$(QEMU_ARCH) -display none -no-reboot -kernel "$(objtree)/$(IMAGE)" -serial stdio $(QEMU_ARGS) > "$(RUN_OUT)"
> + $(Q)qemu-system-$(QEMU_ARCH) -display none -no-reboot -kernel "$(IMAGE)" -serial stdio $(QEMU_ARGS) > "$(RUN_OUT)"
> $(Q)$(REPORT) "$(RUN_OUT)"
>
> Which one do you prefer? will renew this series soon.

It's not a matter of preference but which solution really works. In short
it should work fine and consistently when launched from topdir and from
the nolibc-test dir. I personally don't know the effect of O= when run
from a subdir (is it relative to the current dir or topdir?).

> And even further, I thought of puting everything to $(OUTPUT), but the
> change is very ugly and not good for v6.6, If you like, I will send that
> patch only as a discuss stuff.

Yeah I'd rather avoid ugly things for 6.6 now.

Thanks,
Willy