Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v5] fault-injection: introduce kvmalloc fallback options

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:07:25PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > IIUC debug kernels mainly exist so people who experience e.g. memory
> > corruption can try and debug the failure. In this case, CONFIG_DEBUG_SG
> > will *already* catch a failure early. Nothing special needs to be done.
> 
> The patch helps people debug such memory coprruptions (such as using DMA 
> API on the result of kvmalloc).

That's my point.  I don't think your patch helps debug any memory
corruptions.  With CONFIG_DEBUG_SG using DMA API already causes a
BUG_ON, that's before any memory can get corrupted.

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