From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alistair John Strachan Subject: Re: Kernel checking options Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 22:31:18 +0100 Message-ID: <200805252231.18095.alistair@devzero.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Sitsofe Wheeler Cc: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, kernel-testers-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On Sunday 25 May 2008 20:27:36 Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Is this list complete? Are they all enabling additional checks? > > Additionally are there any options that will make (real) bugs more likely > to occur? For example does preemption make bugs related to races (that > could happen without preemption) happen more often? You're missing the IOMMU test code, which is only available on x86-64 systems. There might be some other architecture specific options you've missed. -- Cheers, Alistair. 137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753528AbYEYVbb (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 17:31:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751564AbYEYVbV (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 17:31:21 -0400 Received: from smtp1.betherenow.co.uk ([87.194.0.68]:60739 "HELO smtp1.betherenow.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751269AbYEYVbU (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 17:31:20 -0400 From: Alistair John Strachan To: Sitsofe Wheeler Subject: Re: Kernel checking options Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 22:31:18 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805252231.18095.alistair@devzero.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 25 May 2008 20:27:36 Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Is this list complete? Are they all enabling additional checks? > > Additionally are there any options that will make (real) bugs more likely > to occur? For example does preemption make bugs related to races (that > could happen without preemption) happen more often? You're missing the IOMMU test code, which is only available on x86-64 systems. There might be some other architecture specific options you've missed. -- Cheers, Alistair. 137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK.