Messages in this thread | | | From | alexander.levin@verizon ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 04/52] x86/selftests: Add clobbers for int80 on x86_64 | Date | Thu, 30 Nov 2017 21:34:37 +0000 |
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 05:42:25PM +0000, Dmitry Safonov wrote: >Hi Sasha, > >I would object including this to stable tree: >1. It's selftest fixup >2. I have never saw selftests failing because of it (but it's possible) > I saw this in CRIU (Checkpoint Restore In Userspace) project > triggering, so I've fixed the selftests, mostly for documentation > reasons - as people in userspace can reuse this code and think > it's good and will just work after copy-paste (which is not the case). > >So, this patch doesn't look urgent to include it in -stable kernel.
Hey Dmitry,
We try to backport selftest patches as stable material to allow a "complete" selftest to run on stable kernels.
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Thanks, Sasha
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