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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: test case for the RODATA config option
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:54:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080123165401.GA30749@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080123080438.490b0c3e@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

> Yes internally that uses c-p-a, but there's more code there, including a set of boundary conditions etc.

You mean the ro boundary to the rest of the kernel and the 
rest of the kernel mappings on i386?

It doesn't seem to check for any of those.

> And for the page table to work, cr0 needs to be set up correctly etc etc etc.

If you really want to check that then you should run it on all CPUs
at least.

But ok given that it's already merged I'll shut up now since it's too
late.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-23 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-22 22:44 [patch] x86: test case for the RODATA config option Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-23  0:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-23  1:11 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-23  5:29   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-23  9:09 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-23 14:49   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-23 15:27     ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-23 16:04       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-23 16:54         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-01-23 17:49           ` Arjan van de Ven

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