Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Kernel testing | From | Miguel de Icaza <> | Date | 14 Apr 1997 12:19:27 -0500 |
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> Just a quick note. Most UNIX vendors have a directory full of stress > test toys, each test is geared specifically towards a certain > subsystem of the kernel. Essentially when you change stuff you go > into there and say "If you dicked with the buffer cache, run one of > test X Y or Z, if you changed the locking code in the networking run A > or B"
We could probably write our test suite of programs by making simple small programs that get linked with the kernel object files and a set of stub libraries.
The stub libraries would just provide the missing functionality in the kernel.
The test suite then could actually stress test the kernel code without even booting the kernel.
Miguel. -- miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx The GNU Midnight Commander: http://mc.blackdown.org/mc Linux/SPARC project: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/sparclinux.html
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