Re: [PATCH] Consolidate CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECK

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/27/2013 12:42 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>>
>> It's fine to do your patch as a first step though, which would not
>> change the behavior.
> 
> A lot of arches seem to not want to enable it because false positives
> are everywhere. It really depends on how good the compiler is at doing
> constant propagation and dead code removal.
> 

Although some of the cases I have seen being flagged as "false
positives" have been real bugs.

	-hpa


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