Am 27.03.2015 um 04:49 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> writes: >>> This also infers that arch/lib will be broken most of the time as >>> every time the networking stack references a new symbol it >>> has to be duplicated into arch/lib. >>> >>> But this does not mean that your idea is bad, all I want to say that >>> I'm not sure whether arch/lib is the right approach. >>> Maybe Arnd has a better idea. >> >> Exactly why I look forward to getting this in-tree. Jeremy Kerr and I >> wrote nfsim back in 2005(!) which stubbed around the netfilter >> infrastructure; with failtest and valgrind it found some nasty bugs. It >> was too much hassle to maintain out-of-tree though :( >> >> I look forward to a flood of great bugfixes from this work :) > > IIRC, the ability to run UML under valgrind was also one of its key features? > And that's not limited to networking. Sadly this feature went never mainline. You needed a rather invading patch for both Linux and valgrind. But now with KASan we have a much more powerful feature to find issues. Thanks, //richard -- 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>