# Re: \[PATCH\] selftests/powerpc: override EMIT\_TESTS instead of the emit\_tests rule

- From: Michael Ellerman \<mpe@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2026-11-03 23:34:54 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2026/11/17856864
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2026/11/17856810/t.md

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On 4/11/26 10:23 am, Sasha Levin wrote:
> The powerpc Makefiles include lib.mk and then define their own
> emit_tests rule, so every selftests build that includes powerpc warns,
> on any architecture:
>
>    Makefile:60: warning: overriding recipe for target 'emit_tests'
>    ../lib.mk:183: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'emit_tests'
>
> lib.mk used to keep the recipe in an EMIT_TESTS variable that Makefiles
> could override, as they still do with RUN_TESTS, INSTALL_RULE and
> CLEAN. Commit d4e59a536f50 ("selftests: Use runner.sh for emit
> targets") dropped the variable, and commit 58b33e78a317
> ("selftests/powerpc: Fix emit_tests to work with run_kselftest.sh")
> then replaced the powerpc EMIT_TESTS definitions with rules.
>
> Bring EMIT_TESTS back in lib.mk and override it in the powerpc Makefiles
> again. Mark the lib.mk recipe with '+', so that the powerpc sub-makes
> still get the jobserver, as they did when $(MAKE) was in the rule
> itself. The emitted test lists don't change.
>
> Fixes: 58b33e78a317 ("selftests/powerpc: Fix emit_tests to work with run_kselftest.sh")
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
> Checked with "make ARCH=powerpc emit_tests" in
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc, which lists the same 186 tests as
> before, and with an x86_64 selftests install, whose kselftest-list.txt
> doesn't change. make -j2 --jobserver-style=pipe doesn't warn about the
> jobserver.
>
>   tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk               | 6 +++++-
>   tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/Makefile     | 3 ++-
>   tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/Makefile | 3 ++-
>   3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Thanks, this is the right fix. I should have done this in 58b33e78a317 but
just wanted to get it fixed without touching lib.mk, which was lazy.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@kernel.org>

cheers


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