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Message-ID: <20070902154351.GA21230@one.firstfloor.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 17:43:51 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you*
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
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