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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:09:56 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH V12] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page table helpers
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Hello Qian,

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:33:08PM -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
> 
> > On Jan 27, 2020, at 10:06 PM, Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > enablement of this test (for the moment) but then the goal is to integrate all
> > of them going forward. The test not only validates platform's adherence to the
> > expected semantics from generic MM but also helps in keeping it that way during
> > code changes in future as well.
> 
> Another option maybe to get some decent arches on board first before merging this
> thing, so it have more changes to catch regressions for developers who might run this. 

Aren't x86 and arm64 not decent enough?
Even if this test could be used to detect regressions only on these two
platforms, the test is valuable.
 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.