From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:54:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B71093.3070409@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080828202750.GB16462@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi>
Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> Heh, heh, one alternative is to have a kmemcheck_memset() thingy that
>> unconditionally zeroes bit fields and maybe is a no-op when kmemcheck is
>> disabled.
>
> This sounds as if this might cause bugs to disappear when debugging gets
> turned on?
Yeah, I suppose. The problem doing that unconditionally is that it
increases kernel text slightly on some architectures (e.g. sparc).
However, as long as you use the KMEMCHECK_BIT_FIELD annotation only in
places that give you false positives, it's we should be safe.
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-28 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-28 18:32 [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API Vegard Nossum
2008-08-28 18:40 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-28 18:40 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-28 20:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-28 20:54 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2008-08-28 20:59 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-28 18:46 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-28 19:02 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-08-28 19:38 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-30 8:28 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-28 19:05 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-28 19:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-28 19:18 ` Vegard Nossum
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