linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmemcheck v7

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Message-ID: <482565A5.8010503@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Sat, 10 May 2008 12:06:45 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...il.com>
CC:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Josh Aune <luken@...er.org>, Pekka Paalanen <pq@....fi>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmemcheck v7

Bart Van Assche wrote:
> It's a bit late but I finally found out about your announcement of
> kmemcheck version 7. Are you familiar with the patch that adds support
> to Valgrind for User Mode Linux ? I'm not sure what the best approach
> is -- letting the kernel do its own checking like kmemcheck or extend
> Valgrind such that it supports UML. Anyway, the techniques applied in
> Valgrind may be useful for kmemcheck too, such as the algorithms used
> in Valgrind to compress the memory state information.

It's better to do it with the native kernel so you can "valgrind" all 
the interesting driver code.
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