linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/10] docs: sphinxify kmemcheck.txt and move to dev-tools

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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2016 09:04:57 +0200
From:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegardno@....uio.no>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] docs: sphinxify kmemcheck.txt and move to dev-tools

Hi,

On 9 August 2016 at 01:35, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
> +The shadow bytemap dump legend is as follows:
> +
> +- i: initialized
> +- u: uninitialized
> +- a: unallocated (memory has been allocated by the slab layer, but has not
> +  yet been handed off to anybody)
> +- f: freed (memory has been allocated by the slab layer, but has been freed
> +  by the previous owner)

Maybe you want ``i``, ``u``, etc. here? The rest looks good to me. Thanks!

Although I'm not sure how relevant kmemcheck is anymore with KASAN
being able to do almost all (if not all) that kmemcheck does, and
better. Oh well, I thought the doc wasn't bad in any case ;-)


Vegard