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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@us.ibm.com,
	a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] RCU updates for v2.6.27
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:06:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080715230646.GB31249@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020807151401s2e37b892q2df007c9e1e3464a@mail.gmail.com>


* Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> There are now three commits in your tree that fix a real bug reported 
> by kmemcheck: 8410565f540db87ca938f56f92780d251e4f157d ("ACPICA: Fix 
> for access to deleted object <regression>"), 
> adeed48090fc370afa0db8d007748ee72a40b578 ("rc80211_pid: Fix fast_start 
> parameter handling"), and 62f75532b583c03840f31e40386ce2df73be9ca0 
> ("slub: Initialize per-cpu stats").

there's a fourth one that i found via kmemcheck and which got fixed by 
Jens but the commit log doesnt mention that it was found via kmemcheck:

 | commit 63a7138671c50a6f2c27bbd1a308dc75967062a3
 | Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
 | Date:   Fri Feb 8 12:41:03 2008 +0100
 |
 |     block: fixup rq_init() a bit

> So I think it has been helpful and that the infrastructure it adds is 
> valuable for future debugging aids.

even if it was not finding any bugs it would be useful to us - it has 
already cleaned up a few dusty aspects of x86 code. (it might be similar 
for SLUB)

Oh, and kmemcheck got Vegard to hack Linux ;-)

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-15 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-14 15:20 [git pull] RCU updates for v2.6.27 Ingo Molnar
2008-07-15 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 19:15   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-15 20:14   ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-16 17:00     ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-16 17:18       ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-15 20:15   ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-15 20:29     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 21:01       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-15 23:06         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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