Re: [RFC] selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Tue Jan 09 2018 - 16:27:45 EST


On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

Ok.