From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753224AbYI2Hyz (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:54:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751412AbYI2Hyr (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:54:47 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:33675 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751136AbYI2Hyq (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:54:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:54:36 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Vegard Nossum Cc: Pekka Enberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, the arch/x86 maintainers Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] kmemcheck fixlets (for -tip) Message-ID: <20080929075436.GA11940@elte.hu> References: <20080928180652.GA8500@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080928180652.GA8500@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Vegard Nossum wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > Here is the fixlets branch, including bitfields API. I think it would > be very nice if you could make this a *separate* branch in -tip, say > kmemcheck-fixlets or so, as it may touch any part of the kernel and > doesn't carry the acks of those maintainers. > > With these patches, you should be able to include kmemcheck in > auto-testing again. At least it works for me :-) > > You may also kill tip/kmemcheck-dma, which has been integrated already. branches are hard to kill in Git (anyone pushing back from a tree that still has the old branch will re-create it). The name is sufficiently generic so we keep keep it. The name can be reused in the future eventually. > The following changes since commit 9f24b3ed3058f022dad24f8304b9ad53adf5aa71: > Vegard Nossum (1): > x86: use REP MOVS instruction for memcpy if kmemcheck is enabled > > are available in the git repository at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck.git fixlets-for-tip > > Vegard Nossum (6): > kmemcheck: bitfield API > net: use kmemcheck bitfields API for skbuff > net: annotate bitfields in struct inet_sock > ieee1394: annotate bitfield > ieee1394/csr1212: fix false positive kmemcheck report > kmemcheck: allocate struct siginfo with SLAB_NOTRACK > > drivers/ieee1394/csr1212.c | 2 ++ > drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c | 7 ++++++- > include/linux/kmemcheck.h | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/skbuff.h | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------ > include/net/inet_sock.h | 24 +++++++++++++++--------- > kernel/signal.c | 8 +++++++- > net/core/skbuff.c | 8 ++++++++ > 7 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) pulled into tip/kmemcheck-bitfields, thanks Vegard. I've also propagated this new branch into the integration rules of auto-kmemcheck-next. Ingo