From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758836AbYAJIjo (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:39:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754296AbYAJIjh (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:39:37 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:55254 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753644AbYAJIjg (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:39:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:39:34 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [patch] Add a simple backtrace test module Message-ID: <20080110083934.GC10745@infradead.org> References: <20080109224208.541a659f@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080109224208.541a659f@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:42:08PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Subject: Add a simple backtrace test module > From: Arjan van de Ven > > During the work on the x86 32 and 64 bit backtrace code I found it useful > to have a simple test module to test a process and irq context backtrace. > Since the existing backtrace code was buggy, I figure it might be useful > to have such a test module in the kernel so that maybe we can even > detect such bugs earlier.. Care to add new testcases to a new tests/ subdirectory so we can have them in one place?