Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:21:29 -0800 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] lib/test_lockup: test module to generate lockups |
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 03:57:42PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > On 11/02/2020 04.26, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 12:56:31PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > > > CONFIG_TEST_LOCKUP=m adds module "test_lockup" that helps to make sure > > > that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. > > > > Isn't this all already possible with CONFIG_LKDTM ? > > Yep, LKDTM covers some cases. But they are unrecoverable. > > It seems LKDTM is more like a fixed set of unit tests while > test_lockup is a flexible tool for stress load.
Okay, cool. I just wanted to make sure you'd seen LKDTM and there wasn't too much wheel-reinvention happening. :) Thanks for checking!
-Kees
-- Kees Cook
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