Hi, On 07/15/2014 06:10 PM, chru...@suse.cz wrote: > Hi! >>> Please review this patch. Thanks. >>> >>> There is a bug on 64bit sendfile() with large file, please see >>> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2014-June/118128.html >>> for details. >> >> I'd like to ask an irrelevant question about that where can we get such bug >> report or similar issues >> about syscalls from a stable place(url), or how did you found this issue, >> thanks. > > This is IMHO most problematic part of producing LTP testcases. There is > no single place to pickup kernel regression/bug reports and produce > testcases for them. This is partly caused by the nature of how the > community works and partly because nobody cared about this (this happens > to change slowly now).
I see. Currently we also plan to grep the kernel's git log to find some system call related bug. If the filter script works, we will send it to ltp list, thanks! > >> Give that currently there are 1039 test cases about syscalls in LTP(cat >> runtest/syscalls | grep -v "^#" | sed -e '/^$/d' | wc -l), >> we can tell that syscalls is a very big test suite in LTP, so I'd like to >> add all similar regression test about >> syscalls to LTP, which will expand ltp's test coverage, thanks. > > And we don't have 100% coverage either, there are numerous > syscalls/ioctls/... that are not even documented properly. > > But at least new syscalls along with documentation and example source > code are starting to appear on linux-api mailing list. > > See also: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/maintaining.html > > which lists various sources where to get information about kernel/libc > interfaces. I will read this page later, thanks! Regards, Xiaoguang Wang > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list Ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
