Re: [PATCH v10 6/6] selftests/mm: add hwpoison-panic destructive test

On 7/29/26 12:21, Breno Leitao wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 11:09:11AM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>> Avoid bash scripts, please :)
> 
> Sorry, I will try to control my fingers next time.
> 
> Jokes aside, all the selftests I maintain
> (tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/netconsole) were done in bash, so,
> I got totally biased.

Ah, I see. The MM folks are not known to be bash experts, which is why we limit
our bash scripts to a bare minimum (and focus on C tests).

We do have some rather simple bash tests that are mostly used to load special
test kernel modules, where the real test logic resides.

For smaller things, I wouldn't mind a bash script in tools/mm. But the parsing
of pageflags is a bit ... advanced :)

Note that we already have some kpageflags processing in tools/mm/page-types.c,
not sure whether some of that could just easily be reused.

-- 
Cheers,

David