Re: [PATCH 1/6] base: Valgrind headers and Kconfig

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 10:06:18AM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:32:00AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Steve VanDeBogart <vandebo-lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > Kconfig option for Valgrind.  Suppression file, for known non-issues.
> > > Valgrind header files (svn 8534) that define the client request
> > > mechanism used to annotate programs plus a couple lines to integrate
> > > with Kconfig.
> > 
> > Couldn't you just get the valgrind.h header from the currently
> > installed valgrind? UML relies on host includes anyways, so
> > I don't see a reason to not do that for valgrind too.
> 
> Kernel code can't get headers from the system, unless you're thinking
>        #include "/usr/include/valgrind.h"
> or something similar.

Some um files at least least include sys/* files which are surely
user space?  If they can include that why not valgrind.h? 


-Andi
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