Re: [PATCH] block: fix 32 bit overflow in __blkdev_issue_discard()

Omar Sandoval
2018-11-16T08:47:01Z

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:32:33AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 03:04:57PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > They don't run on my test machines because they require a modular
> > kernel and I run a monolithic kernel specified externally by the
> > qemu command line on all my test VMs.
> >
> > generic/349 [not run] scsi_debug module not found
> > generic/350 [not run] scsi_debug module not found
> > generic/351 [not run] scsi_debug module not found
>
> Same here, btw. Any test that requires modules is a rather bad idea.

I'll plug my vm.py script that supports running a kernel build with
modules without installing them into the VM (by mounting the modules
over 9p): https://github.com/osandov/osandov-linux#vm-setup