From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754236AbbCKO0r (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:26:47 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0149.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.149]:48845 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752242AbbCKO0m (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:26:42 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6E657665747340676F6F646D69732E6F7267 X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,rostedt@goodmis.org,:::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:800:960:973:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2198:2199:2393:2553:2559:2562:2693:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3353:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:5007:6119:6261:7875:7903:9040:10004:10400:10848:10967:11232:11658:11914:12294:12517:12519:12660:12663:12740:13069:13311:13357:14096:14097:21063:21080,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-HE-Tag: cave95_911fdffbd6236 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2256 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:26:36 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Sasha Levin Cc: LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck Message-ID: <20150311102636.6b4110a8@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <55004595.7020304@oracle.com> References: <1426074547-21888-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> <20150311081909.552e2052@grimm.local.home> <55003666.3020100@oracle.com> <20150311084034.04ce6801@grimm.local.home> <55004595.7020304@oracle.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:39:33 -0400 Sasha Levin wrote: > On 03/11/2015 08:40 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:34:46 -0400 > > Sasha Levin wrote: > > > >> > Fair enough. We knew there are existing kmemcheck users, but KASan should be > >> > superior both in performance and the scope of bugs it finds. It also shouldn't > >> > impose new limitations beyond requiring gcc 4.9.2+. > >> > > > Ouch! OK, then I can't use it. I'm currently compiling with gcc 4.6.3. > > > > It will be a while before I upgrade my build farm to something newer. > > Are you actually compiling new kernels with 4.6.3, or are you using older > kernels as well? Yes for both :-) > > There's no real hurry to kill kmemcheck right now, but we do want to stop > supporting that in favour of KASan. Understood, but the kernel is suppose to support older compilers. Perhaps we can keep kmemcheck for now and say it's obsoleted if you have a newer compiler. Because it will be a while before I upgrade my compilers. I don't upgrade unless I have a good reason to do so. Not sure KASan fulfills that requirement. -- Steve