Thanks for the patches, please include akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in the future, as we can merge the changes through Andrew as well. Also please Cc yzaikin@xxxxxxxxxx, brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx in follow ups for now. They are looking at the sysctl testing code as well. Some feedback below: In-Reply-To: <20181227111231.12912-2-zev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 05:12:29AM -0600, Zev Weiss wrote: > +run_wideint_tests() > +{ > + # check negative and positive 64-bit values, with and without > + # bits set in the lower 31, and with and without bit 31 (sign > + # bit of a 32-bit int) set. None of these are representable > + # in 32 bits, and hence all should fail. > + check_failure 0x0000010000000000 > + check_failure 0x0000010080000000 > + check_failure 0x000001ff7fffffff > + check_failure 0x000001ffffffffff > + check_failure 0xffffffff7fffffff > + check_failure 0xffffffffffffffff This s64 version of -1 > + check_failure 0xffffff0000000000 > + check_failure 0xffffff0080000000 > +} It was still unclear from the comments and manually looking at the values why they are clear candidates to always test from all respective 64-bit values. A comment per each would be useful. Luis