linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] kmemcheck

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Message-ID: <adazlrb8fxq.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:29:05 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [git pull] kmemcheck

 >       kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig

This patch does:

 > +config KMEMCHECK
 > +	bool "kmemcheck: trap use of uninitialized memory"
 > +	depends on X86_32

So it's only possible to select kmemcheck on 32-bit builds, But you also
seem to have 64-bit stuff, eg

 >       kmemcheck: support for 64-bit
 >       kmemcheck: add missing pte_hidden() for x86-64

so is the Kconfig patch slightly out-of-date?

 - R.
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