Alan Cox wrote:

>crashme is part of the Linux cerberus test suite although it goes back
>many years before. Roughly speaking crashme does this
>
>        Catch every exception
>        Generate random data
>        Execute it
>        (catching the exception to repeat)
>
>Its found many things, including a K6 CPU bug. If you try it on your 390
>make sure someone has tried it before you  ;)

We do run crashme, and while we didn't find CPU bugs, we found a few
kernel bugs that way -- mostly related to some of the weirder s390
semi-privileged instructions that we didn't properly shut off ...

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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