Thread (33 messages) 33 messages, 6 authors, 2026-02-13

Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] selftests: pidfd: add tests for PIDFD_SELF_*

From: Lorenzo Stoakes <hidden>
Date: 2024-10-17 07:54:58
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-kselftest, linux-mm, lkml

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 07:14:34PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
On 10/16/24 3:06 PM, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 02:00:27PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
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On 10/16/24 04:20, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
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diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd.h b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd.h
index 88d6830ee004..1640b711889b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd.h
@@ -50,6 +50,14 @@
   #define PIDFD_NONBLOCK O_NONBLOCK
   #endif
+/* System header file may not have this available. */
+#ifndef PIDFD_SELF_THREAD
+#define PIDFD_SELF_THREAD -100
+#endif
+#ifndef PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP
+#define PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP -200
+#endif
+
As mentioned in my response to v1 patch:

kselftest has dependency on "make headers" and tests include
headers from linux/ directory
Right but that assumes you install the kernel headers on the build system,
which is quite a painful thing to have to do when you are quickly iterating
on a qemu setup.

This is a use case I use all the time so not at all theoretical.
This is turning out to be a fairly typical reaction from kernel
developers, when presented with the "you must first run make headers"
requirement for kselftests.
It's a typical response for good reason... :)
Peter Zijlstra's "NAK NAK NAK" response [1] last year was the most
colorful, so I'll helpfully cite it here. :)

But seriously...user feedback is rare and valuable. We have some, to the
effect of, "lose that requirement". And we also have an agreement, and
an initial implementation in selftests/mm, on *how* to avoid it [2].

So...let's do it that way? Please?
I'd be happy to but we can't because the uapi header is just broken with
this test due to the linux/fcntl.h vs. system header fcntl.h issue.

We could work around it by copying the header without the linux/fcntl.h
include however...

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231103121652.GA6217@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ (local)
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e076eaca5906

thanks,
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John Hubbard
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