linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] KVM: my debug patch queue

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Message-ID: <afba4cd8-72d3-ae18-df22-92be3b8eb321@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:55:25 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] KVM: my debug patch queue

On 26/04/21 14:43, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 10:38 -0700, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 01/04/21 15:54, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I would like to publish two debug features which were needed for other stuff
>>> I work on.
>>>
>>> One is the reworked lx-symbols script which now actually works on at least
>>> gdb 9.1 (gdb 9.2 was reported to fail to load the debug symbols from the kernel
>>> for some reason, not related to this patch) and upstream qemu.
>>
>> Queued patches 2-5 for now.  6 is okay but it needs a selftest. (e.g.
>> using KVM_VCPU_SET_EVENTS) and the correct name for the constant.
> Do you mean to add a kvm-unit-test or to add a test to kernel's kvm unit tests
> for this?

selftests is used for those in the kernel.  "Unit test" can mean both, 
but usually it means kvm-unit-tests because they're easier to write.

Paolo