Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:06:46 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] RCU updates for v2.6.27 |
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* Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> There are now three commits in your tree that fix a real bug reported > by kmemcheck: 8410565f540db87ca938f56f92780d251e4f157d ("ACPICA: Fix > for access to deleted object <regression>"), > adeed48090fc370afa0db8d007748ee72a40b578 ("rc80211_pid: Fix fast_start > parameter handling"), and 62f75532b583c03840f31e40386ce2df73be9ca0 > ("slub: Initialize per-cpu stats").
there's a fourth one that i found via kmemcheck and which got fixed by Jens but the commit log doesnt mention that it was found via kmemcheck:
| commit 63a7138671c50a6f2c27bbd1a308dc75967062a3 | Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | Date: Fri Feb 8 12:41:03 2008 +0100 | | block: fixup rq_init() a bit
> So I think it has been helpful and that the infrastructure it adds is > valuable for future debugging aids.
even if it was not finding any bugs it would be useful to us - it has already cleaned up a few dusty aspects of x86 code. (it might be similar for SLUB)
Oh, and kmemcheck got Vegard to hack Linux ;-)
Ingo
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