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On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 09:50:31 +0100 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:

> > Yes, it doesn't and it's not trivial to do. The tool reports uses of
> > unint _values_. Values don't necessary reside in memory. It can be a
> > register, that come from another register that was calculated as a sum
> > of two other values, which may come from a function argument, etc.
> 
> I see. BTW, the patch I sent will be picked up for testing, or does it
> have to be in mmotm/linux-next first?

I grabbed it.  To go further we'd need a changelog, a signoff,
description of testing status, reviews, a Fixes: and perhaps a
cc:stable ;)