Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756666AbcKXE5i (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2016 23:57:38 -0500 Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:37617 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754622AbcKXE5h (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2016 23:57:37 -0500 Subject: Re: linker-tables v5 testing To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" References: Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Josh Poimboeuf , Nicholas Piggin , Masami Hiramatsu , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Fengguang Wu , Adrian Hunter , David Ahern , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Wang Nan , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Borislav Petkov From: Guenter Roeck Message-ID: <00e1b1fb-193c-2fe4-1718-5381d13148ac@roeck-us.net> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:57:22 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated_sender: linux@roeck-us.net X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: bh-25.webhostbox.net: authenticated_id: linux@roeck-us.net X-Authenticated-Sender: bh-25.webhostbox.net: linux@roeck-us.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2145 Lines: 59 On 11/23/2016 08:11 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Guenter, > > I think I'm ready to start pushing a new patch set out for review. > Before I do that -- can I trouble you for letting your test > infrastructure hammer it? I'll only push out the patches for review Pushed into my testing branch > based on this new set of changes once all tests come back OK for all > architectures. > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux-next.git/log/?h=20161117-linker-tables-v5 > > Fenguang & Guenter, > > Any chance I can trouble you to enable the new driver: > CONFIG_TEST_LINKTABLES=y on each kernel configuration as it will run a > test driver which will WARN_ON() if it finds any errors. > I added this to all defconfigs in the testing branch. That doesn't test all configurations, but at least those which use a standard defconfig as base, which by now is most of them. Guenter > If these warns are captured by your logs then we will see run time use > issues of using this on any architecture for *all* the sections for > linker tables. I had not bothered yet adding a test driver for section > ranges given I already tested > ./tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest script and confirm things > are still a go. > > To the rest on Cc: > > Other than a few documentation improvements I think this is now > done... Of course there may be more bike-shedding or few minor > adjustments I may have missed -- Nickolas (or others), please do poke > me with any last minute blockers you see before I push out a new patch > set. I figure there may be some time before the tests are over and I > could probably adjust the series to account for minor things that are > eye-sores before requiring a full new submission. > > Also I have a draft edit of a paper on this (hasn't been adjusted to > account for the new API changes yet), if you're in the US and you want > to be anti-social and read something during turkey day perhaps that > might help. > > http://drvbp1.linux-foundation.org/~mcgrof/papers/2016/11/21/linker-tables-20161121.pdf > > Oh and tools folks: > > cd tools/linker-tables/ > make clean > make > ./demo > > Luis >