On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:52:23 +0200 Halil Pasic <pa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 07/27/2017 03:40 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:18:01 +0200 > > Halil Pasic <pa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > >> [Re-posting my previous reply because I've accidentally > >> dropped almost all addresses.] > >> > >> On 07/27/2017 10:26 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote: > >>> On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:44:40 +0200 > >>> Halil Pasic <pa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > >>>> Regarding testing: did not do much more than a simple smoke test > >>>> with virtio-ccw. > >>> > >>> I think we need a way to throw random channel programs at a channel > >>> device... > >>> > >> > >> By random do you mean random random, or do you mean carefully crafted > >> to provoke (and verify) certain responses. If it's more like the second > >> case I've actually wrote something (a kernel driver) for 'internal use' > >> but at the moment it's limited to indirect data access support (no test > >> cases for invalid invalid channel programs). > > > > That's what I've been thinking of. Standalone guest code would be even > > better (can be integrated into automatic testing), but it's certainly > > useful. > > > >> The 'internal guys' say it > >> probably ain't interesting for the rest of the world make this external, > >> but if you are interested I could send you the patch these days. > > > > Would be great if you could make this available. It is especially > > interesting for me, but possibly for other folks working on s390 as well. > > It is very wip and I don't feel comfortable with sharing it > with the world yet. But I'm definitely interested in making this > available. I haven't figured out what would be the best way to make > it available, and I hope you can help me with that. Do you have a git tree somewhere you can dump it? > > > > > Might be good together with an "eat this" channel device in qemu. > > > > If course I do have a qemu counterpart. And of course I'd love to see that as well :) > > To sum it up, one I'm done with the next iteration I'm gonna send > you with the patches unless you say otherwise. > > Regards, > Halil >
