Re: [PATCH 4/4] selftest/arm64: Add MTE test config fragment

From: Muhammad Usama Anjum

Date: Fri Aug 21 2026 - 04:03:59 EST


On 20/08/2026 5:42 pm, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 04:42:16PM +0100, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
>> On 20/08/2026 4:38 pm, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>>> Is tooling going to pick this up or should this be at the arm64/ level?
>
>> Yes, it will be picked up. The top-level kselftest-merge target recursively
>> finds every file named config under tools/testing/selftests, so
>> arm64/mte/config is included.
>
> That's good, though looking at the list we have requirements for
> CONFIG_SYSFS in other tests, probably some of the other stuff as well so
> we should either do something at the top level or decide we're going to
> do this independently for all the subdirectories. Top level seems
> easier TBH.

I wanted to keep limited scope of this series. Hence was just looking
from mte's perspective which is narrow. You are right on putting one
config file for all of arm64. I'll run/look through all of arm64 to
see which more configs are needed and move the config file in top level.

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Thanks,
Usama