Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933716AbYBHLjp (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 06:39:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751465AbYBHLje (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 06:39:34 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.189]:41995 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751871AbYBHLjd (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 06:39:33 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=EFBxRZp1aJbOAplM4bxTNYgvoqJDlAoHSvMkgeMX5CkhzzCN+bcxr7djJCZ3OLrte8eg/bu70SZj5kkgG7VopSmpOmEmyNph2Q/ZDBma1SgLqf1IyGH/28eqSQcUvdQ8TViUcjO3q64se9x0f20Sm+UUVYsa12EgWcA6YOPSky0= Message-ID: <84144f020802080339o5f9442f7obc0a1de0bd688b93@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:39:32 +0200 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Andi Kleen" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kmemcheck v3 Cc: "Vegard Nossum" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Richard Knutsson" , "Christoph Lameter" In-Reply-To: <20080208121012.GF4745@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47AB79D4.2070605@gmail.com> <20080208115542.GD4745@one.firstfloor.org> <84144f020802080331j5bc01bc6naf1fe0192aadf70b@mail.gmail.com> <20080208121012.GF4745@one.firstfloor.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 807c8db8e05680b4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 16 Hi Andi, On Feb 8, 2008 2:10 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > It's probably tricky; there are all kinds of hidden page faults > on x86 on data structures allocated as pages (e.g. GDT, LDT [which > is sometimes kmalloc too], stack etc.) Aah, I see. We can annotate those callers to disable the page faulting but maybe that's not practical, dunno. Perhaps it's not such a big problem to track slab objects only as those contain most of the interesting ones anyway... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/