From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:39:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55004595.7020304@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150311084034.04ce6801@grimm.local.home>
On 03/11/2015 08:40 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:34:46 -0400
> Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> > Fair enough. We knew there are existing kmemcheck users, but KASan should be
>> > superior both in performance and the scope of bugs it finds. It also shouldn't
>> > impose new limitations beyond requiring gcc 4.9.2+.
>> >
> Ouch! OK, then I can't use it. I'm currently compiling with gcc 4.6.3.
>
> It will be a while before I upgrade my build farm to something newer.
Are you actually compiling new kernels with 4.6.3, or are you using older
kernels as well?
There's no real hurry to kill kmemcheck right now, but we do want to stop
supporting that in favour of KASan.
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-11 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-11 11:43 [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 12:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-11 12:34 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 12:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-11 13:39 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2015-03-11 14:23 ` Dave Jones
2015-03-11 14:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-11 14:43 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 14:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-17 1:48 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-17 2:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-11 14:35 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-11 17:20 ` David Miller
2015-03-11 17:25 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-11 18:44 ` David Miller
2015-03-11 20:01 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2015-03-11 20:48 ` David Miller
2015-03-12 0:57 ` Rusty Russell
2015-03-12 3:49 ` Michael Ellerman
2015-03-12 12:40 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-12 13:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-12 7:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2015-03-12 12:51 ` Sasha Levin
2015-03-12 13:00 ` Jonathan Corbet
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