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SubjectRe: Are there kernel testing suites out there? We need them.
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:

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> Automatic regression tests very rarely help. Most of the bugs that
> get into a shipping kernel now are ones I can't reproduce even given a
> description let alone find randomly

But if the cost is negligible, even that "rarely" is worth it.

Perhaps a start would be to run Larry McVoy's lmbench? That way you'd see
if there are performance regressions too.
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