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selftest/vm: clarify error statement in gup_test

Message ID 20220330215257.112029-1-sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com
State New
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Series selftest/vm: clarify error statement in gup_test | expand

Commit Message

Sidhartha Kumar March 30, 2022, 9:52 p.m. UTC 
Print two possible reasons /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test
cannot be opened to help users of this test diagnose
failures.

Signed-off-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15+
---
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c
index fe043f67798b0..c496bcefa7a0e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c
@@ -205,7 +205,9 @@  int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	gup_fd = open("/sys/kernel/debug/gup_test", O_RDWR);
 	if (gup_fd == -1) {
-		perror("open");
+		perror("failed to open /sys/kernel/debug/gup_test");
+		printf("check if CONFIG_GUP_TEST is enabled in kernel config\n");
+		printf("check if debugfs is mounted at /sys/kernel/debug\n");
 		exit(1);
 	}