[LTP] [PATCH 2/2] Add madvise12 test

[Petr Vorel]

Hi Lorenzo, Andrea,

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 01:30:48AM +0100, Petr Vorel wrote:
> > Hi Andrea,

> > [ I dared to Cc Lorenzo, the author of the kernel implementation ]

> I'm not that scary am I? :)))

> Feel free to cc- me on anything relating to this even if obviously in the
> LTP project happy to be included! :)

Thank you, we really appreciate that!

> > > Verify that MADV_GUARD_INSTALL is causing SIGSEGV when someone is
> > > trying to access memory advised with it.

> > Test LGTM, thanks for covering a new kernel feature.

> All good, looks fine to me, though might be worth expanding over time, we
> have some self tests in the kernel for this, see
> tools/testing/selftests/mm/guard-pages.c.

Great! Noted at the ticket.

> But it's nice to have a basic LTP regression test to assert the fundamental
> thing is working as it should, and also nice that you implement it from
> your perspective rather than mine, where I am obviously rather influenced
> by implementation details.

> Also note I submitted man pages for the change, you can pull it from [0]
> and view it via:

> $ man --manpath=. 2 madvise

> [0]:git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git

+1

Kind regards,
Petr

> Hopefully these will get distributed around soon!

> Thanks for doing this for my feature, much appreciated overall!

> Cheers, Lorenzo
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