On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:40:47PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:

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> Hi Alexey,

>

> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:32:23PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:

>>> How do you feel about this patch? It's all about making kmemcheck more

>>> useful... and not much else. Does it have any chance of entering the

>>> kernel along with kmemcheck (when/if that happens)?

>>

>> DEFINE_BITFIELD is horrible.

>

> Heh, heh, one alternative is to have a kmemcheck_memset() thingy that

> unconditionally zeroes bit fields and maybe is a no-op when kmemcheck is

> disabled.

This sounds as if this might cause bugs to disappear when debugging gets

turned on?
Or do I miss anything?
cu

Adrian
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