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On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 00:24:15 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> wrote:

> The self tests differ from this and other tests using the userland-stubbed
> kernel approach in that they test system call invocation and assert
> expectations.
> 
> My point to Andrew was that we could potentially automatically run these
> tests as part of a self-test run as they are so quick, at least in the
> future, if that made sense.

Yes, I was thinking we'd just add a selftest which does (simplified,
of course)

	cd ../../vma
	make
	./whatever

simply to cause this new code to be invoked when someone runs the
selftest suite.