On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:44:39PM +0200, Julien Iguchi-Cartigny wrote:
> I'm using Netkit (www.netkit.org): it's a network simulator using UML
> and I want to show packets exchanged between the UML machines. I believe
> the best way is to
>
> - use wireshark with the flag "-" to capture packets i
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:01:19AM +0100, Graham Cobb wrote:
> The bisection is complete. It took longer than I expected as many of the
> versions git-bisect wanted to test would not build UML without tracking down
> some additional patches.
>
> The bug seems to have been introduced with git c
Hello Pekka,
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Steve VanDeBogart
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It is true that code above the allocator should not be touching free'd
>> slab objects. However, it is also true that objects from slabs that
>> have a constru
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Steve VanDeBogart
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Ideally, we'd tell Valgrind that the bytes of a free'd slab object are
>> no longer accessible, but the initialized state should remain the sa
Hi,
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, John Reiser wrote:
> With regard to Read-Copy-Update, I anticipate that RCU will require
> special annotations because of the deliberate references after kfree
> and before the next corresponding kmalloc. These special annotations
> will require great care, because bugs in
Hi Steve,
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Steve VanDeBogart
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Index: linux-2.6.27-rc5/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> @@ -1080,6 +1081,7 @@
>>> if (!page)
>>> goto failed;
>>> }
>>> + VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_UNDEFINED(page_address(page), P
Hi Steve,
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Steve VanDeBogart
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for pointing out the location of the kmemcheck code. I looked
> around briefly but didn't find the latest version. It does seem that
> kmemcheck and Valgrind annotations want to live in the same pl
