linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] kmemcheck fixlets (for -tip)

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Date:	Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:54:36 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] kmemcheck fixlets (for -tip)


* Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> Here is the fixlets branch, including bitfields API. I think it would
> be very nice if you could make this a *separate* branch in -tip, say
> kmemcheck-fixlets or so, as it may touch any part of the kernel and
> doesn't carry the acks of those maintainers.
> 
> With these patches, you should be able to include kmemcheck in 
> auto-testing again. At least it works for me :-)
> 
> You may also kill tip/kmemcheck-dma, which has been integrated already.

branches are hard to kill in Git (anyone pushing back from a tree that 
still has the old branch will re-create it). The name is sufficiently 
generic so we keep keep it. The name can be reused in the future 
eventually.

> The following changes since commit 9f24b3ed3058f022dad24f8304b9ad53adf5aa71:
>   Vegard Nossum (1):
>         x86: use REP MOVS instruction for memcpy if kmemcheck is enabled
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck.git fixlets-for-tip
> 
> Vegard Nossum (6):
>       kmemcheck: bitfield API
>       net: use kmemcheck bitfields API for skbuff
>       net: annotate bitfields in struct inet_sock
>       ieee1394: annotate bitfield
>       ieee1394/csr1212: fix false positive kmemcheck report
>       kmemcheck: allocate struct siginfo with SLAB_NOTRACK
> 
>  drivers/ieee1394/csr1212.c |    2 ++
>  drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c |    7 ++++++-
>  include/linux/kmemcheck.h  |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/skbuff.h     |   31 +++++++++++++++++++------------
>  include/net/inet_sock.h    |   24 +++++++++++++++---------
>  kernel/signal.c            |    8 +++++++-
>  net/core/skbuff.c          |    8 ++++++++
>  7 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

pulled into tip/kmemcheck-bitfields, thanks Vegard. I've also propagated 
this new branch into the integration rules of auto-kmemcheck-next.

	Ingo
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