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From: "Lauro Ramos Venancio" <lauro.venancio@gmail.com>
To: thayne@c2.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] zero/NULL fixes.
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 16:14:25 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c10c9f0801091114r4afe0cf2ncf3d0d3538808191@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197420123.2947.90.camel@phantasm.home.enterpriseandprosperity.com>

I think these patches are important bugfixes and they should be
applied on the qemu head.
They fix some LTP tests.

Lauro

2007/12/11, Thayne Harbaugh <thayne@c2.net>:
> The EFAULT changes use a result of NULL to detect a failure from lock*()
> functions.  There are syscalls that accept NULL as a valid argument and
> now the syscalls return -EFAULT.  These patches allow appropriate
> syscalls to accept NULL.
>
> I have put together a regression test harness wrapped around the Linux
> Test Project (LTP).  I've been able to find regressions that were caused
> by the EFAULT changes.  It's more exhaustive than running an ls
> executable and has helped find existing bugs as well as regressions.  It
> will run regression tests for multiple architectures.
>
> I'll be sending a few more patches for this same type of regression.  I
> should also be sending in the test harness once I've worked out a few
> more details.
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-09 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-12  0:42 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] zero/NULL fixes Thayne Harbaugh
2008-01-09 19:14 ` Lauro Ramos Venancio [this message]
2008-01-09 21:31   ` Thayne Harbaugh

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