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From: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
To: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Provide ways of crashing the kernel through debugfs
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:13:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100129071324.2521705c@marrow.netinsight.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264689482.1973.132.camel@localhost>

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:38:02 +0200
Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 10:53 +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
> > > Well, it provides a few more ways of crashing the kernel. That's
> > > basically the only additional feature you'll get.
> > 
> > Yeah, I can see that, but why do I need to care how I crash the kernel
> > as long as I can crash it in a way.
> 
> But Simon did explain in his first e-mail why he cares. You or others
> might care for similar reasons.

Another argument for the patch is that it's simple and well-contained,
it doesn't touch any other code apart from the driver itself.

It is also easy to extend with other tests, e.g., provoking kernel
hangs to test watchdogs and so on.

// Simon

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-29  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-26  9:56 [PATCH] Provide ways of crashing the kernel through debugfs Simon Kagstrom
2010-01-26 10:08 ` Américo Wang
2010-01-26 10:18   ` Simon Kagstrom
2010-01-27  2:53     ` Américo Wang
2010-01-27  7:09       ` Simon Kagstrom
2010-01-28 14:38       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-01-29  6:13         ` Simon Kagstrom [this message]
2010-01-29 10:33           ` Andrew Morton
2010-02-02  4:16             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-02  8:16               ` Simon Kagstrom
2010-02-03  8:52               ` [PATCH] lkdtm: Add debugfs access and loosen KPROBE ties Simon Kagstrom
2010-02-03 22:55                 ` Andrew Morton
2010-02-04  9:06                   ` [PATCH v2] " Simon Kagstrom

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