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Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support

From	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support
Date	2015-07-23 01:00 +0200
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On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 15:37 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:34:34 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 15:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > selftests is a pretty scrappy place.  It's partly a dumping ground for
> > > things so useful test code doesn't just get lost and bitrotted.  Partly
> > > a framework so people who add features can easily test them. Partly to
> > > provide tools to architecture maintainers when they wire up new
> > > syscalls and the like.
> > 
> > Yeah, ipc, for instance, also sucks _badly_ in selftests.
> 
> What testsuite should people be using for IPC?

The best I've found is using the ipc parts of LTP. It's caught a lot of
bugs in the past. Unsurprisingly, I believe Fengguang has this
automated.

Manfred also has a few for more specific purposes -- which also serve
for performance testing:
https://github.com/manfred-colorfu/ipcsemtest
https://github.com/manfred-colorfu/ipcscale

iirc Dave Hansen also had written some shm-specific tests.

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Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2015-07-23 00:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-07-23 00:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-07-23 00:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2015-07-23 01:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2015-07-23 01:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2015-07-23 00:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> - 2015-07-23 01:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2015-07-23 02:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2015-07-23 02:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> - 2015-07-23 19:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> - 2015-07-23 19:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> - 2015-07-23 19:40 +0200

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