Re: [PATCH v2] selftests/pidfd: Fix duplicate-symbol warnings for SCHED_ CPP symbols

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Jul 24 2025 - 19:29:07 EST


On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 04:17:07PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 7/24/25 12:26, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > On 7/23/25 17:13, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > The pidfd selftests run in userspace and include both userspace and kernel
> > > header files.  On some distros (for example, CentOS), this results in
> > > duplicate-symbol warnings in allmodconfig builds, while on other distros
> > > (for example, Ubuntu) it does not.
> > >
> > > Therefore, use #undef to get rid of the userspace definitions in favor
> > > of the kernel definitions.
> > >
> > > Other ways of handling this include splitting up the selftest code so
> > > that the userspace definitions go into one translation unit and the
> > > kernel definitions into another (which might or might not be feasible)
> > > or to adjust compiler command-line options to suppress the warnings
> > > (which might or might not be desirable).
> > >
> > > [ paulmck: Apply Shuah Khan feedback. ]
> >
> > Looks good to me.
>
> I picked this up for Linux 6.17-rc1.

Thank you, Shuah!

Thanx, Paul