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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (f6f6e1a4), by kmemleak's scan_block()
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:48:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090825084808.GA14003@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251189914.7261.11.camel@penberg-laptop>


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

> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 10:32 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > In any case, I don't think it is very productive to run them both 
> > > at the same time, simply because kmemcheck slows every memory 
> > > access down so much and scanning memory doesn't exactly help that. 
> > > It _could_ be useful to have them compiled into the same kernel, 
> > > though, e.g. a distro "-debug" kernel.
> > > 
> > > Maybe you can just add the "depends on !KMEMLEAK" to 
> > > CONFIG_KMEMCHECK in tip/out-of-tree for now?
> > 
> > i think it would be far more intelligent to annotate those accesses 
> > by kmemleak as 'trust me, dont check'. Willing to test such a patch.
> 
> I guess something like this totally untested patch should do it. 
> Vegard, Catalin?

Looks good - but doesnt apply cleanly to -tip because i picked up a 
number of kmemleak patches into tip:out-of-tree for testing - so 
i'll leave it up for Vegard/Catalin to do a blessed version of it 
against the kmemleak tree - which i hope will apply fine to tip too
:)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-25  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-25  7:19 WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (f6f6e1a4), by kmemleak's scan_block() Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25  8:04 ` Vegard Nossum
2009-08-25  8:08   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-25  8:27     ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-25  8:31       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-25  8:40         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25  8:48           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-25  8:32   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25  8:45     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-25  8:48       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-08-25  8:54         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-25  9:03           ` Vegard Nossum
2009-08-25  9:11             ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-25  9:15               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-25  9:25                 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-25  9:11             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-25  9:21               ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-25  9:26                 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-25  9:28                   ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-25  9:31                     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-25  9:34                       ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-25  9:34                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25 10:43                         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25 13:57                           ` Catalin Marinas
2009-08-26 10:48                         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-26 11:17                           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25  9:25               ` Ingo Molnar

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