Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934010AbXIBPoW (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:44:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757648AbXIBPny (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:43:54 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:42445 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757501AbXIBPnx (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:43:53 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 17:43:51 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Mike Frysinger Cc: Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you* Message-ID: <20070902154351.GA21230@one.firstfloor.org> References: <8bd0f97a0708311422u309ff09cs24dfe64ff535a982@mail.gmail.com> <8bd0f97a0709011550y833fb5ax7d40cae937789fd8@mail.gmail.com> <20070902065926.GA15487@one.firstfloor.org> <8bd0f97a0709020815r75fcb225lf44bcb57783b436c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0709020815r75fcb225lf44bcb57783b436c@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 785 Lines: 22 On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:15:23AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > there is still the ABI issue ... code written in kernel space in pure > asm cannot always be compiled in userspace and work properly/the same Is that a blackfin weirdness? > > > The other issue to test some of them properly you need unmapped pages > > etc. That gets much easier to do in user space. There are some other > > issues. > > you mean testing boundary overflows ? can be handled with canaries > rather than segfaults i imagine ... Not for reads, no. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/