On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 07:30:59PM +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: ... > The problem was related to CONFIG_KMEMCHECK. It was causing the system > to not boot (I have not look into why yet, don't have full console > output, but I can see it complains about PCI and ACPI init and then > dies in x86_perf_event_update+0x15, thus it could be system/HW specific). AFAIK kmemcheck is rarely used nowadays, because kasan does practically the same and does it better, so failures are expected. > > I'm now running with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK, and is running tests with kmemleak must be OK. Personally I use it quite often. > exhausting memory. And it works, e.g. when the alloc fails and @object > becomes NULL. Cool. Thanks, Vladimir -- 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>