Re: What exactly are the issues with 2.6.0-test10 preempt?

Andi Kleen
2003-11-25T00:05:34Z

> > Me and Chris used that to track down some nasty corruptions on x86-64,
> > it is especially useful together with LTP which calls a lot of system
> > calls that could cause corruption.
>
> Do you have your code posted anywhere, and when are you going to merge it
> with LTP? ;)

I wrote it always custom tailored to the problem (it is not very difficult, but
you often have to tune it a bit until it has the right frequency to find the
corruption) Don't have one here right now, sorry. Chris had a aimed to be
generic patch for 2.4 that may still be around. I don't think it would fit
into current LTP because it is an kernel module (LTP doesn't have a kernel build
infrastructure right now). But it would be an useful addition longer term to it
I agree, once they support kernel modules.

-Andi