Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck

Andrey Ryabinin
2015-03-11T20:01:00Z

2015-03-11 21:44 GMT+03:00 David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>:
> From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:25:47 -0400
>
>> You're probably wondering why there are changes to SPARC in that patchset? :)
>
> Libsanitizer doesn't even build have the time on sparc, the release
> manager has to hand patch it into building again every major release
> because of the way ASAN development is done out of tree and local
> commits to the gcc tree are basically written over during the
> next merge.
>

Libsanitizer is userspace lib it's for userspace ASan, KASan doesn't use it.
We have our own 'libsanitzer' in kernel.

> So I'm a little bit bitter about this, as you can see. :)
>

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Best regards,
Andrey Ryabinin