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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>
Cc: uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] reading uninit memory in do_io (ubd_kern.c)
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 21:17:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071205021716.GA11522@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4755F4EC.4050902@BitWagon.com>

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:46:36PM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> It's up to the point of user mode for process 1; see log below.
> That means much of initialization, annotating the slab allocator
> (kmalloc) enough to "hide" the allocation structures from outside access
> but allow the allocator to reference them itself, and enough changes
> to valgrind to tolerate more forms of clone() and to handle switching
> stacks via longjmp().  I sent my changes for valgrind-3.2.3 to
> valgrind-developers last weekend.

Neato, that's further than I ever managed.

				Jeff

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-05  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-04 23:31 [uml-devel] reading uninit memory in do_io (ubd_kern.c) John Reiser
2007-12-05  0:22 ` Jeff Dike
2007-12-05  0:46   ` John Reiser
2007-12-05  2:17     ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2007-12-06  2:10     ` Jeff Dike
2007-12-06  4:37       ` John Reiser
2007-12-06  5:01         ` Jeff Dike

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