Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] refactor the ringtest testing for ptr_ring

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 14:26:32 -0400

On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 08:06:50PM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> On 2021/7/5 17:56, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 11:57:33AM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> >> tools/include/* have a lot of abstract layer for building
> >> kernel code from userspace, so reuse or add the abstract
> >> layer in tools/include/ to build the ptr_ring for ringtest
> >> testing.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >>  create mode 100644 tools/include/asm/cache.h
> >>  create mode 100644 tools/include/asm/processor.h
> >>  create mode 100644 tools/include/generated/autoconf.h
> >>  create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/align.h
> >>  create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/cache.h
> >>  create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/slab.h
> > 
> > Maybe somebody can change this to be able to include in-tree headers directly?
> 
> If the above works, maybe the files in tools/include/* is not
> necessary any more, just use the in-tree headers to compile
> the user space app?
> 
> Or I missed something here?

why would it work? kernel headers outside of uapi are not
intended to be consumed by userspace.

> > 
> > Besides above, had you tested this with `make O=...`?
> 
> You are right, the generated/autoconf.h is in another directory
> with `make O=...`.
> 
> Any nice idea to fix the above problem?
> 
> >