From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ob0-f179.google.com (mail-ob0-f179.google.com [209.85.214.179]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4AAA6B0032 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 23:49:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by obbgh1 with SMTP id gh1so16252obb.1 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-oi0-x22d.google.com (mail-oi0-x22d.google.com. [2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22d]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f141si451729oid.37.2015.03.26.20.49.55 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by oigz129 with SMTP id z129so21751739oig.1 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:49:55 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87iodnqfp1.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> References: <1427202642-1716-1-git-send-email-tazaki@sfc.wide.ad.jp> <551164ED.5000907@nod.at> <55117565.6080002@nod.at> <55118277.5070909@nod.at> <55133BAF.30301@nod.at> <5514560A.7040707@nod.at> <87iodnqfp1.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 04:49:55 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] an introduction of library operating system for Linux (LibOS) From: Geert Uytterhoeven Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Rusty Russell Cc: Richard Weinberger , Hajime Tazaki , Linux-Arch , Arnd Bergmann , Jonathan Corbet , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , David Rientjes , Joonsoo Kim , Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Linux MM , Jeff Dike , mathieu.lacage@gmail.com On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: > Richard Weinberger writes: >> This also infers that arch/lib will be broken most of the time as >> every time the networking stack references a new symbol it >> has to be duplicated into arch/lib. >> >> But this does not mean that your idea is bad, all I want to say that >> I'm not sure whether arch/lib is the right approach. >> Maybe Arnd has a better idea. > > Exactly why I look forward to getting this in-tree. Jeremy Kerr and I > wrote nfsim back in 2005(!) which stubbed around the netfilter > infrastructure; with failtest and valgrind it found some nasty bugs. It > was too much hassle to maintain out-of-tree though :( > > I look forward to a flood of great bugfixes from this work :) IIRC, the ability to run UML under valgrind was also one of its key features? And that's not limited to networking. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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