On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 16:14 -0300, Lauro Ramos Venancio wrote: > I think these patches are important bugfixes and they should be > applied on the qemu head. > They fix some LTP tests.
Tonight I'll be pulling my local tree up to CVS current and I'll resend any remaining EFAULT and zero/NULL patches that haven't been included. Right now I simply haven't tracked which patches have been incorporated and which ones are pending. Thanks for the interest. > 2007/12/11, Thayne Harbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The EFAULT changes use a result of NULL to detect a failure from lock*() > > functions. There are syscalls that accept NULL as a valid argument and > > now the syscalls return -EFAULT. These patches allow appropriate > > syscalls to accept NULL. > > > > I have put together a regression test harness wrapped around the Linux > > Test Project (LTP). I've been able to find regressions that were caused > > by the EFAULT changes. It's more exhaustive than running an ls > > executable and has helped find existing bugs as well as regressions. It > > will run regression tests for multiple architectures. > > > > I'll be sending a few more patches for this same type of regression. I > > should also be sending in the test harness once I've worked out a few > > more details. > > > >