linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmemcheck v7

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Message-ID: <4826D74F.7060505@BitWagon.com>
Date:	Sun, 11 May 2008 04:23:59 -0700
From:	John Reiser <jreiser@...Wagon.com>
To:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
CC:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...il.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	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

Jeff Dike wrote:

> ... not grinding processes means you don't need to figure out
> how to get the valgrind engine into your processes.

One easy way to force valgrind into a process is for load_elf_binary()
in fs/binfmt_elf.c to force a PT_INTERP which loads memcheck via
true user-mode calls, then chains to the original PT_INTERP.

-- 
John Reiser, jreiser@...Wagon.com
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