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From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	lance.yang@linux.dev, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 6/6] selftests/mm: add hwpoison-panic destructive test
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:25:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f83d5b26-b369-489b-a305-1eb5ec6fccfb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <amkn21ftNme48Vbl@gmail.com>

On 7/29/26 00:07, Breno Leitao wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 09:21:40PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>> On 7/28/26 21:20, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The bash script is still there, no known issues.
>>>
>>> We have the thing and tests are useful.  I'd say retain it until the
>>> rewrite-in-C happens?
>>
>> Nacked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
> 
> I have a draft of the selftest in C already and I will give it more bake
> time, and I will submit it until EOW.

IMHO there is no need to rush this test here, we could merge it after the main work.

We neglected our selftests quite a bit in the past, and that is biting us now.

That's why I push back hard now (sorry) against stuff that is different than the
rest and not easy to maintain.

I know, hwpoison-panic is a destructive test, but I really don't think we should
just merge mostly unreviewed bash tests that will just bitrot.

Which makes me wonder now: should this actually be a selftest? It's nothing one
would just want to run in a CI. It will crash your machine.

Maybe this should just be a tool in tools/mm? I really think so. So having a
nice C-level hwpoison-panic.c in tools/mm might be the way to go.

So let's rather make this test well maintainable and have it properly reviewed
than rushing something suboptimal.

-- 
Cheers,

David

  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-29  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-30 12:46 [PATCH v10 0/6] mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages Breno Leitao
2026-06-30 12:46 ` [PATCH v10 1/6] mm/memory-failure: drop dead error_states[] entry for reserved pages Breno Leitao
2026-06-30 12:46 ` [PATCH v10 2/6] mm/memory-failure: surface unhandlable kernel pages as -ENOTRECOVERABLE Breno Leitao
2026-07-06 12:22   ` Miaohe Lin
2026-06-30 12:46 ` [PATCH v10 3/6] mm/memory-failure: report MF_MSG_KERNEL for unrecoverable kernel pages Breno Leitao
2026-06-30 12:46 ` [PATCH v10 4/6] mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages Breno Leitao
2026-06-30 12:46 ` [PATCH v10 5/6] Documentation: document panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl Breno Leitao
2026-07-09  3:18   ` Miaohe Lin
2026-06-30 12:46 ` [PATCH v10 6/6] selftests/mm: add hwpoison-panic destructive test Breno Leitao
2026-07-04  9:31   ` Mike Rapoport
2026-07-06 16:14     ` Breno Leitao
2026-07-06 16:23       ` Mike Rapoport
2026-07-09  3:34   ` Miaohe Lin
2026-07-28  4:24     ` Andrew Morton
2026-07-28  8:57       ` Miaohe Lin
2026-07-28  9:29         ` Breno Leitao
2026-07-28 19:20           ` Andrew Morton
2026-07-28 19:21             ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-28 22:07               ` Breno Leitao
2026-07-29  7:25                 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-07-29  8:53                   ` Breno Leitao
2026-07-29  9:09                     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-28  9:35       ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-30 20:55 ` [PATCH v10 0/6] mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-06-26 15:33 Breno Leitao
2026-06-26 15:33 ` [PATCH v10 6/6] selftests/mm: add hwpoison-panic destructive test Breno Leitao
2026-06-27  7:52   ` Mike Rapoport
2026-06-29 15:50     ` Breno Leitao

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