Re: [PATCH v6] selftest: size: Add size test for Linux kernel

Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-embedded,org.kernel.vger.linux-api,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/03/2014 05:50 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 12/03/2014 05:36 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 10:42:21AM -0800, Tim Bird wrote:
>>> This test shows the amount of memory used by the system.
>>> Note that this is dependent on the user-space that is loaded
>>> when this program runs.  Optimally, this program would be
>>> run as the init program itself.
>>>
>>> The program is optimized for size itself, to avoid conflating
>>> its own execution with that of the system software.
>>> The code is compiled statically, with no stdlibs. On my x86_64 system,
>>> this results in a statically linked binary of less than 5K.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird-/[email protected]>
>>
>> v6 looks good to me.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
>>
>> Should this go through the tinification tree or the selftests tree?
>>
> 
> Josh/Tim,
> 
> Thanks both. Yes v6 looks good. I will take this through kselftest
> tree. I will apply this to kselftes fixes.
> 

Applied to kselftest fixes branch.

-- Shuah


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Shuah Khan
Sr. Linux Kernel Developer
Samsung Open Source Group
Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley)
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