Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:04:59 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] Kprobes: Move kprobes examples to samples/ |
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* Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> > feature request: please make this work in the !modular case as well > > - if built-in then it should just run sometime during bootup and run > > the tests and report success/failure. This way automated testing can > > pick up any regressions much easier. > > Will try cook up something along those lines. It'll be easy to verify > if the probes inserted and removed properly, but verifying handlers > run correctly will need some work. > > We have a sort of regression test bucket that uses expect to parse the > dmesg to verify handlers did run correctly; that isn't a totally > in-kernel solution anyway. I have a couple of ideas in mind to make it > easier.
Great. Would be really nice to have something along the lines of CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS. Those unit tests took time to develop, but they caught more than 90% (!) of the internal lockdep engine bugs before they ever hit mainline.
Ingo
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