Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:52:24 -0700 | From | David Daney <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] MIPS: Replace _PAGE_READ with _PAGE_NO_READ |
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On 04/18/2011 11:24 AM, Kevin Cernekee wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:32 AM, David Daney<ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> wrote: >> How much testing have you done on non-RI/XI CPUs? > > On a non-RIXI CPU I was able to boot the system, run a basic GUI > application, create R/W shared mappings to /dev/mem, insert/remove > kernel modules, run a broken program that dumps core, etc. > > I guess it would be a good idea to make sure swap still works. Didn't > try that yet. > > Can you think of anything else that might exercise the bits that were > touched by the patch? Were there any tests you ran during the > development of RIXI support which uncovered subtle issues? >
We run the LTP, I think it tests these things. We also have a small test case that tests for both the no-read and no-execute parts, but that would be expected to fail on platforms that don't have RI/XI bits.
David Daney
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