linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck

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Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:01:00 +0300
From:	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck

2015-03-11 21:44 GMT+03:00 David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:
> From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:25:47 -0400
>
>> You're probably wondering why there are changes to SPARC in that patchset? :)
>
> Libsanitizer doesn't even build have the time on sparc, the release
> manager has to hand patch it into building again every major release
> because of the way ASAN development is done out of tree and local
> commits to the gcc tree are basically written over during the
> next merge.
>

Libsanitizer is userspace lib it's for userspace ASan, KASan doesn't use it.
We have our own 'libsanitzer' in kernel.

> So I'm a little bit bitter about this, as you can see. :)
>


-- 
Best regards,
Andrey Ryabinin
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