From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9523BCA9EA0 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:21:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E02E2089C for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:21:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1571401307; bh=aZ4sD3NhDln0b6sHN9JC+hjFDBwzr5tX2IXHtBrWAnk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=RM2ADp1JRP/YlJbiKiRiH2mXPbZFSpXeXsmOfbctih5K1+vJmMBvoSiroXEo/KMsb 8DNUPsS5zJfIE5psU/F30df6Q/Lri1CC7tQ33kMxsx0Tmn8pVOEzyBMwnSvZizmPOM knlUBUvwERQWy9VQb8SJmoAbq8TW6I6hfkxVA3CM= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2442701AbfJRMVq (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Oct 2019 08:21:46 -0400 Received: from mail-pg1-f193.google.com ([209.85.215.193]:37076 "EHLO mail-pg1-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2387570AbfJRMVp (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Oct 2019 08:21:45 -0400 Received: by mail-pg1-f193.google.com with SMTP id p1so3301533pgi.4; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 05:21:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=VcukdS+h2wwJ3/U/N/4m0S2AoPCXUWoZLLc3DYniW2I=; b=Q1msBJ3e099t2nSvYex7Z+jTlpopRllh6mguFZOeeE/m7DMYYYL/lcy4zZY7iravmh 8j9vf+/tlXDsLORK298oltaRNxfF6CBcQjtLOArMJyzbhA1ZpLrJj+BWFWS0IaN728eQ xsZTBwLn41uMv4KqA9pw3hGXllxMNnqTCEfew/8Ly4k0XbdwWGAsB0ok7BAxw4iljEiI 5EfWa71cpcSoM2uC4hAwdkGO+KeoRuRoxAprpIkCUPs+fJsU67Zbd8bT1GGV6QHGEgFe 3cHE1udYLTIJQU0ttyl5AdAJ1iPS/qYkGW4cGlDVS7GwZ2hewbDQkTTVImp9LzkWg0TI /4Kw== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUsMEl/Ik/gBhxQlSpCpK7vgio3BMcbFr7GADiKQz94GQjNiD+J TJvpz7wziqUL4cdVqnxVlc4= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqx1rmDV8Tbar4XUzXvi4MjLnC0zwf0LcXubUrDJ70/UhX+bBzy1YlAwSw1OAw5siYTwcytnzg== X-Received: by 2002:a62:ae06:: with SMTP id q6mr6445843pff.96.1571401304946; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 05:21:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 42.do-not-panic.com (42.do-not-panic.com. [157.230.128.187]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r24sm6749355pfh.69.2019.10.18.05.21.43 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 18 Oct 2019 05:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 42.do-not-panic.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 843DE4042C; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:21:42 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:21:42 +0000 From: Luis Chamberlain To: Alan Maguire , Matthias Maennich Cc: Brendan Higgins , Kees Cook , "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" , Shuah Khan , Iurii Zaikin , Andrew Morton , Masahiro Yamada , catalin.marinas@arm.com, joe.lawrence@redhat.com, penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp, schowdary@nvidia.com, urezki@gmail.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, changbin.du@intel.com, kunit-dev@googlegroups.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel , Knut Omang Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 linux-kselftest-test 1/3] kunit: allow kunit tests to be loaded as a module Message-ID: <20191018122142.GC11244@42.do-not-panic.com> References: <1570546546-549-1-git-send-email-alan.maguire@oracle.com> <1570546546-549-2-git-send-email-alan.maguire@oracle.com> <20191008213535.GB186342@google.com> <20191016230116.GA82401@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 07:32:18PM +0100, Alan Maguire wrote: > kunit needs a non-exported global kernel symbol > (sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs). Sounds like a perfect use case for the new symbol namespaces [0]. We wouldn't want random drivers importing this namespace, but for kunit it would seem reasonable. [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/798254/ Luis