Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] an introduction of library operating system for Linux (LibOS)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> writes:
>> This also infers that arch/lib will be broken most of the time as
>> every time the networking stack references a new symbol it
>> has to be duplicated into arch/lib.
>>
>> But this does not mean that your idea is bad, all I want to say that
>> I'm not sure whether arch/lib is the right approach.
>> Maybe Arnd has a better idea.
>
> Exactly why I look forward to getting this in-tree.  Jeremy Kerr and I
> wrote nfsim back in 2005(!) which stubbed around the netfilter
> infrastructure; with failtest and valgrind it found some nasty bugs.  It
> was too much hassle to maintain out-of-tree though :(
>
> I look forward to a flood of great bugfixes from this work :)

IIRC, the ability to run UML under valgrind was also one of its key features?
And that's not limited to networking.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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