From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Blaisorblade Subject: Re: [RFC] madvise(MADV_TRUNCATE) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:44:42 +0200 References: <1130366995.23729.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200510281910.39646.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> <20051028182842.GA8514@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20051028182842.GA8514@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510282044.43492.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jeff Dike Cc: Badari Pulavarty , Hugh Dickins , akpm@osdl.org, andrea@suse.de, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, linux-mm List-ID: On Friday 28 October 2005 20:28, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:10:39PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > It may be good when the patch is already really polished, IMHO, but not > > for verifying what's really wrong. > > > > Also, you can gdb an UML running with the patch, to verify what's going > > on. > > > > But I wouldn't suggest testing this with nested UMLs - using that means > > looking for trouble. > > I think he's looking for test cases, not debugging this inside a UML. > If he's debugging on hardware, then nesting UMLs doesn't come into the > picture. In fact, I'm suggesting debugging this with UML as debuggee kernel. I've used that _a lot_ for my remap_file_pages work. And then the nested UML thing _does_ comes into the picture. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org