From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle•com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:40:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55018936.5080805@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426132192.25936.7.camel@ellerman.id.au>
On 03/11/2015 11:49 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 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?
I think this is just an off-by-one in the documentation. The cover letter for
the KASan patchset stated:
KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access, therefore you
will need a fresh GCC >= v4.9.2
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-12 12:41 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
2015-03-12 12:40 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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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