linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] kmemcheck: remove annotations

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Date:   Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:17:32 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Cc:     "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "rostedt@...dmis.org" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        "vegardno@....uio.no" <vegardno@....uio.no>,
        "penberg@...nel.org" <penberg@...nel.org>,
        "ebiederm@...ssion.com" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "glider@...gle.com" <glider@...gle.com>,
        "devtimhansen@...il.com" <devtimhansen@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] kmemcheck: remove annotations

On Sat 07-10-17 03:02:13, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Remove kmemcheck annotations, and calls to kmemcheck from the kernel.

How did you generate this? I suspect a git grep + sed? Because this
doesn't seem to be correct. I didn't get further than this

> @@ -266,7 +264,6 @@ static inline int dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
>  	struct scatterlist *s;
>  
>  	for_each_sg(sg, s, nents, i)
> -		kmemcheck_mark_initialized(sg_virt(s), s->length);
>  	BUG_ON(!valid_dma_direction(dir));
>  	ents = ops->map_sg(dev, sg, nents, dir, attrs);
>  	BUG_ON(ents < 0);

which doesn't really look correct. I appreciate you have split this up
and the resulting code might even be correct I find it quite important
to have such a large changes be reproducible by reviewers because it is
simply impossible to review this manually.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs