From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kill kmemcheck Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:48:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20150311.164807.1389597491151339402.davem@davemloft.net> References: <55007A9B.4010608@oracle.com> <20150311.144443.1290707334236248572.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org From: Andrey Ryabinin Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:01:00 +0300 > 2015-03-11 21:44 GMT+03:00 David Miller : >> From: Sasha Levin >> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:25:47 -0400 >> >>> You're probably wondering why there are changes to SPARC in that patchset? :) >> >> Libsanitizer doesn't even build have the time on sparc, the release >> manager has to hand patch it into building again every major release >> because of the way ASAN development is done out of tree and local >> commits to the gcc tree are basically written over during the >> next merge. >> > > Libsanitizer is userspace lib it's for userspace ASan, KASan doesn't use it. > We have our own 'libsanitzer' in kernel. I was speaking about ASAN development in general, of which the libsanitizer issue is a byproduct.