Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] kmemcheck: remove annotations

From: Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2017 - 10:09:04 EST


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 03:17:32PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>On Sat 07-10-17 03:02:13, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> Remove kmemcheck annotations, and calls to kmemcheck from the kernel.
>
>How did you generate this? I suspect a git grep + sed? Because this
>doesn't seem to be correct. I didn't get further than this

I had an (apparently broken) Coccinelle script to remove references to
kmemcheck hooks.

>> @@ -266,7 +264,6 @@ static inline int dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
>> struct scatterlist *s;
>>
>> for_each_sg(sg, s, nents, i)
>> - kmemcheck_mark_initialized(sg_virt(s), s->length);
>> BUG_ON(!valid_dma_direction(dir));
>> ents = ops->map_sg(dev, sg, nents, dir, attrs);
>> BUG_ON(ents < 0);
>
>which doesn't really look correct. I appreciate you have split this up
>and the resulting code might even be correct I find it quite important
>to have such a large changes be reproducible by reviewers because it is
>simply impossible to review this manually.

Let me send a fix for that, and review this again.

Thanks for the review!

>--
>Michal Hocko
>SUSE Labs

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Thanks,
Sasha