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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:44:14 +0200
From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
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CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] kmemcheck v7
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Hi,

I skipped the public announcements for versions 5 and 6, but here is 7 :)

General description: kmemcheck is a patch to the linux kernel that
detects use of uninitialized memory. It does this by trapping every
read and write to memory that was allocated dynamically (e.g. using
kmalloc()). If a memory address is read that has not previously been
written to, a message is printed to the kernel log.

Changes since v4 (rough list):
- SLUB parts were broken-out into its own file to avoid cluttering the main
   SLUB code.
- A rather lot of cleanups, including removing #ifdefs from arch code.
- Some preparation in anticipation of an x86_64 port.
- Make reporting safer by using a periodic timer to inspect the error queue.
- Fix hang due to page flags changing too early on free().
- Fix hang due to kprobes incompatibility.
- Allow CONFIG_SMP, but limit number of CPUs to 1 at run-time.
- Add kmemcheck=0|1 boot option.
- Add /proc/sys/kernel/kmemcheck for run-time enabling/disabling.


These patches apply to Linus's v2.6.25-rc8. The latest patchset can also be
found here: http://folk.uio.no/vegardno/linux/kmemcheck/

(I will try to submit this for inclusion in 2.6.26, and testing and feedback
is of course very welcome!)

I would like to thank the following people, who provided patches or helped
in various ways:

Ingo Molnar
Paul McKenney
Pekka Enberg
Pekka Paalanen
Peter Zijlstra
Randy Dunlap


Kind regards,
Vegard Nossum