Re: [RFC] selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Tue Jan 09 2018 - 16:25:07 EST


On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This tests that the vsyscall entries do what they're expected to do.
> It also confirms that attempts to read the vsyscall page behave as
> expected.
>
> If changes are made to the vsyscall code or its memory map handling,
> running this test in all three of vsyscall=none, vsyscall=emulate,
> and vsyscall=native are helpful.
>
> (Because it's easy, this also compares the vsyscall results to their
> vDSO equivalents.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>

Hi Andy,

I am not cc'ed on this patch. Doesn't look like the patch is sent to everybody
get_maintainers lists for the set of files that are changed in this patch.

Please make sure to include everybody on your future kselftest patches.

thanks,
-- Shuah