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From: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
To: brendan.higgins@linux.dev, davidgow@google.com, rmoar@google.com,
	corbet@lwn.net
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, kunit-dev@googlegroups.com,
	workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] doc: kunit: add information about cleaning source trees
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:27:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7104475f60568f6a580b03d84e61abe311d63e46.1745965121.git.skhan@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1745965121.git.skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

If kunit run happens in a tree in which a x86_64 kernel was built,
the source tree could be dirty.

"make ARCH=um mrproper" will not clean the x86_64 build artifacts.
Running "make ARCH=x86_64 mrproper" is necessary to clean them.

Add this information to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst
index a98235326bab..568e29aebd6e 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst
@@ -39,6 +39,18 @@ can run kunit_tool:
 	``make ARCH=um mrproper``, just be aware that this will delete the
 	current configuration and all generated files.
 
+	You may see the following error if a prior build leaves behind
+	header files which 'make ARCH=um mrproper' fails to clean:
+
+	"undefined symbol sev_es_trampoline_start referenced ..."
+
+	This is special case scenario when a prior x86_64 build populates
+	the source tree with arch/x86/realmode/rm/pasyms.h. This header
+	will not be cleaned by 'make ARCH=um mrproper'
+
+	If you encouter this problem, run 'make ARCH=x86_64 mrproper' to
+	remove generated header files.
+
 If everything worked correctly, you should see the following:
 
 .. code-block::
-- 
2.47.2


  reply	other threads:[~2025-04-29 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-29 22:27 [PATCH 0/2] Update kunit doc and tool with tips to build errors Shuah Khan
2025-04-29 22:27 ` Shuah Khan [this message]
2025-04-29 22:29   ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: kunit: add information about cleaning source trees Randy Dunlap
2025-04-29 23:33     ` Shuah Khan
2025-04-29 22:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] kunit: add tips to clean source tree to build help message Shuah Khan
2025-04-29 22:49   ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-04-29 23:34     ` Shuah Khan
2025-04-30  3:54   ` David Gow
2025-04-30 21:25     ` Shuah Khan
2025-05-01  0:40       ` Shuah Khan
2025-04-30  5:18   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-04-30 21:28     ` Shuah Khan

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