From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:07:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55013B38.6040100@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426074547-21888-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Hi Sasha,
On 3/11/15 1:43 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> As discussed on LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck.
>
> KASan is a replacement that is able to work without the limitation of
> kmemcheck (single CPU, slow). KASan is already upstream.
>
> We are also not aware of any users of kmemcheck (or users who don't consider
> KASan as a suitable replacement).
>
> I've build tested it using all[yes,no,mod]config and fuzzed a bit with this
> patch applied, didn't notice any bad behaviour.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Can you elaborate on what exactly was discussed at LSF/MM? Preferably in
the commit log. ;-)
- Pekka
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To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
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Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
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Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:07:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55013B38.6040100@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426074547-21888-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Hi Sasha,
On 3/11/15 1:43 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> As discussed on LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck.
>
> KASan is a replacement that is able to work without the limitation of
> kmemcheck (single CPU, slow). KASan is already upstream.
>
> We are also not aware of any users of kmemcheck (or users who don't consider
> KASan as a suitable replacement).
>
> I've build tested it using all[yes,no,mod]config and fuzzed a bit with this
> patch applied, didn't notice any bad behaviour.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Can you elaborate on what exactly was discussed at LSF/MM? Preferably in
the commit log. ;-)
- Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-12 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-11 11:43 [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 11:43 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 11:43 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 12:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-11 12:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-11 12:34 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 12:34 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 12:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-11 12:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-11 13:39 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 13:39 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 14:23 ` Dave Jones
2015-03-11 14:23 ` Dave Jones
2015-03-11 14:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-11 14:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-11 14:43 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 14:43 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 14:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-11 14:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-17 1:48 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-17 1:48 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-17 2:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-17 2:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-11 14:35 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-11 14:35 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-11 17:20 ` David Miller
2015-03-11 17:20 ` David Miller
2015-03-11 17:25 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 17:25 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 18:44 ` David Miller
2015-03-11 18:44 ` David Miller
2015-03-11 20:01 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2015-03-11 20:01 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2015-03-11 20:48 ` David Miller
2015-03-11 20:48 ` David Miller
2015-03-12 0:57 ` Rusty Russell
2015-03-12 0:57 ` Rusty Russell
2015-03-12 0:57 ` Rusty Russell
2015-03-12 3:49 ` Michael Ellerman
2015-03-12 3:49 ` Michael Ellerman
2015-03-12 3:49 ` Michael Ellerman
2015-03-12 12:40 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-12 12:40 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-12 18:11 ` David Miller
2015-03-12 13:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-12 13:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-12 13:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-12 7:07 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2015-03-12 7:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2015-03-12 12:51 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-12 12:51 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-12 13:00 ` Jonathan Corbet
2015-03-12 13:00 ` Jonathan Corbet
2015-03-12 13:00 ` Jonathan Corbet
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