On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 03:04:51PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote: > On 11/20/2017 04:50 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > > > > The reason I didn't submit the vchecker to mainline is that I didn't find > > the case that this tool is useful in real life. Most of the system broken case > > can be debugged by other ways. Do you see the real case that this tool is > > helpful? If so, I think that vchecker is more appropriate to be upstreamed. > > Could you share your opinion? > > > > Isn't everything that vchecker can do and far beyond that can be done via systemtap > script using watchpoints? I don't have enough knowledge about systemtap however I guess that it's not possible. vchecker uses the ASAN hooks which are placed on all memory read/write around the kernel. We cannot easily add watchpoints for them. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
