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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you*
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 17:43:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070902154351.GA21230@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0709020815r75fcb225lf44bcb57783b436c@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:15:23AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> there is still the ABI issue ... code written in kernel space in pure
> asm cannot always be compiled in userspace and work properly/the same

Is that a blackfin weirdness? 

> 
> > The other issue to test some of them properly you need unmapped pages
> > etc. That gets much easier to do in user space. There are some other
> > issues.
> 
> you mean testing boundary overflows ?  can be handled with canaries
> rather than segfaults i imagine ...

Not for reads, no.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-02 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-31 21:22 the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you* Mike Frysinger
2007-09-01  6:14 ` Robin Getz
2007-09-01 22:52   ` Mike Frysinger
2007-09-01 22:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-01 22:50   ` Mike Frysinger
2007-09-02  6:59     ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-02 15:15       ` Mike Frysinger
2007-09-02 15:43         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-09-04 15:05           ` Mike Frysinger
2007-09-05 17:51             ` Mike Frysinger
2007-09-02 18:20       ` Håvard Skinnemoen
2007-09-04 14:41   ` Robin Getz
2007-09-02  2:34 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-02  3:44   ` Mike Frysinger
2007-09-03 13:37     ` Bill Davidsen

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