linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/8] bitmap: Introduce bitmap_set, bitmap_clear, bitmap_find_next_zero

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Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:54:47 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
To:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	x86@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-altix@....com,
	Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Lothar Wassmann <LW@...O-electronics.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] bitmap: Introduce bitmap_set, bitmap_clear,
 bitmap_find_next_zero_area

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 18:10 +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> My user space testing exposed off-by-one error find_next_zero_area
> in iommu-helper.

Why not merge those tests into the kernel as a configurable boot-time
self-test?

cheers

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