On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:05:22 +0530
Subrata Modak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Christoph,
> 
> I am not sure whether the new vmalloc enhancement (vmalloc: show
> vmalloced areas via /proc/vmallocinfo) in 2.6.26 requires special
> testing efforts, and also whether this can be tested from the
> user-space alone. May i know if you would have used special test cases
> written/developed by you for this purpose. In that case, would you be
> able to share them with LTP under GPLv2 ?
> 

one useful test is to make sure it's off by default in production
kernels (due to the security sensitive nature of leaking this info)
It would have been nice if this was in debugfs as well not in proc

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