linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/28] rcutorture: Add KVM-based test framework

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20131116012116.GZ4138@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:21:16 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	josh@...htriplett.org, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com, darren@...art.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
	sbw@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/28] rcutorture: Add KVM-based test
 framework

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 05:05:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 04:35:14PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > 
> > This commit adds the test framework that I used to test RCU under KVM.
> > This consists of a group of scripts and Kconfig fragments.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> 
> Yeah!  Thanks for following through on this, it will help me out a lot
> in testing stable kernels.

Glad you like it!  ;-)

> Oh, one very minor comment on the patches, you should delete the address
> of the FSF from your file headers, unless you want to track the office
> movements of them for the next 40+ years.  We've been removing them from
> kernel code where we notice them, as half of them are wrong, and I don't
> want to have to go back and fix them again when they move again.

I had no idea that they tend to move!  Thank you, I will remove them.

							Thanx, Paul

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/