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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:49:52 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1426132192.25936.7.camel@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426074547-21888-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>

On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 07:43 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> As discussed on LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck.
> 
> KASan is a replacement that is able to work without the limitation of
> kmemcheck (single CPU, slow). KASan is already upstream.
> 
> We are also not aware of any users of kmemcheck (or users who don't consider
> KASan as a suitable replacement).

>From Documentation/kasan.txt:

    therefore you will need a certain version of GCC > 4.9.2

AFAIK gcc 4.9.3 hasn't been released yet. (Or does it mean >= 4.9.2 ?)

Can we perhaps wait until there is a released version of GCC that supports
KASan? And maybe then a touch longer so folks can test it works on their
platforms?

cheers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-12  3:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-11 11:43 [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck Sasha Levin
2015-03-12  0:57 ` Rusty Russell
2015-03-12  3:49 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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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