Re: [PATCH] Provide ways of crashing the kernel through debugfs

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:13:24 +0100 Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:38:02 +0200
> Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 10:53 +0800, Am__rico Wang wrote:
> > > > Well, it provides a few more ways of crashing the kernel. That's
> > > > basically the only additional feature you'll get.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I can see that, but why do I need to care how I crash the kernel
> > > as long as I can crash it in a way.
> > 
> > But Simon did explain in his first e-mail why he cares. You or others
> > might care for similar reasons.
> 
> Another argument for the patch is that it's simple and well-contained,
> it doesn't touch any other code apart from the driver itself.
> 
> It is also easy to extend with other tests, e.g., provoking kernel
> hangs to test watchdogs and so on.
> 

Yes, it's the sort of thing which lots of people have written
throw-away ad-hoc versions of.  It probably makes sense to do it once,
do it right to save people from having to rererereinvent that wheel.

What do others think?
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