Re: [PATCH 3/3] selftests: add readfile(2) selftests

Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-07-05T11:24:22Z

Hi Greg,

On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 8:55 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 08:38:26PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 4:05 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > Test the functionality of readfile(2) in various ways.
> > >
> > > Also provide a simple speed test program to benchmark using readfile()
> > > instead of using open()/read()/close().
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/readfile/readfile.c
> >
> > > +static void readfile(const char *filename)
> > > +{
> > > +// int root_fd;
> >
> > ???
>
> Ugh, sorry about that, I obviously didn't clean up my last tests from
> this file, thanks for catching that.

Reading about seq_file behavior, did the commented-out test for
"/sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices" work?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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