linux-kernel - Re: Compilation error for target liblockdep

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <825bc318-cde1-f80c-972c-436a4fef4ecf@acm.org>
Date:   Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:09:34 -0700
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@....com>,
        Zhengyuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@...inos.cn>,
        mingo <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "alexander.levin" <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Compilation error for target liblockdep

On 2020-04-14 06:08, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> These files aren't unit tests for lockdep, so they can't be converted to 
> KUnit. liblockdep is a stand alone library bringing lockdep's 
> functionallity to pthread via LDPRELOAD, see also:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/536363/

How big is the user base of liblockdep? How many alternatives exist for
liblockdep? Are these alternatives better or worse than liblockdep? See
also:
* https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSafetyAnalysis.html
* https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/ThreadSanitizerCppManual
* http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/hg-manual.html

Bart.