Re: Memory exhaustion testing?

[David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:

> > Any chance you could proffer some of your scripts in the form of patches 
> > to the tools/testing directory?  Anything that can reliably trigger rarely 
> > executed code is always useful.
> 
> Perhaps that is a good idea.
> 
> I think should move the directory location in my git-repo
> prototype-kernel[1] to reflect this directory layout, like I do with
> real kernel stuff.  And when we are happy with the quality of the
> scripts we can "move" it to the kernel.  (Like I did with my pktgen
> tests[4], now located in samples/pktgen/).
> 
> A question; where should/could we place the kernel module
> slab_bulk_test04_exhaust_mem[1] that my fail01 script depends on?
> 

I've had the same question because I'd like to add slab and page allocator 
benchmark modules originally developed by Christoph Lameter to the tree.  
Let's add Andrew.

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