netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Fix struct sock bitfield annotation

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Date:	Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:08:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vegard.nossum@...il.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix struct sock bitfield annotation

From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 23:54:02 +0200

> Hm, no, this looks wrong to me, because sk_protocol and sk_type
> _aren't_ in fact part of the bitfield.
> 
> We don't want to affect the kernel _at all_ when CONFIG_KMEMCHECK=n,
> so I guess we should make the kmemcheck_bitfield_{begin|end}() macros
> empty instead for that case? (And for kmemcheck kernels, we don't
> really care about the lost 8 bytes anyway.)

Hmmm, indeed.

Eric I'm holding this patch off for now.
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