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Re: [PATCH 09/10] docs: sphinxify kmemcheck.txt and move to dev-tools

From Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 09/10] docs: sphinxify kmemcheck.txt and move to dev-tools
Date 2016-08-09 09:10 +0200
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Hi,

On 9 August 2016 at 01:35, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> +The shadow bytemap dump legend is as follows:
> +
> +- i: initialized
> +- u: uninitialized
> +- a: unallocated (memory has been allocated by the slab layer, but has not
> +  yet been handed off to anybody)
> +- f: freed (memory has been allocated by the slab layer, but has been freed
> +  by the previous owner)

Maybe you want ``i``, ``u``, etc. here? The rest looks good to me. Thanks!

Although I'm not sure how relevant kmemcheck is anymore with KASAN
being able to do almost all (if not all) that kmemcheck does, and
better. Oh well, I thought the doc wasn't bad in any case ;-)


Vegard

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[PATCH 00/10] [RFC] Sphinxify and coalesce development-tool documents Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-08-09 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 05/10] docs: sphinixfy gcov.txt and move to dev-tools Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-08-09 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 03/10] docs: sphinxify sparse.txt and move to dev-tools Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-08-09 01:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 03/10] docs: sphinxify sparse.txt and move to dev-tools Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-08-09 10:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 03/10] docs: sphinxify sparse.txt and move to dev-tools Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> - 2016-08-09 10:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 03/10] docs: sphinxify sparse.txt and move to dev-tools Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-08-09 10:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 03/10] docs: sphinxify sparse.txt and move to dev-tools Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> - 2016-08-09 12:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 03/10] docs: sphinxify sparse.txt and move to dev-tools Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-08-10 01:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 03/10] docs: sphinxify sparse.txt and move to dev-tools Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-08-09 10:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 03/10] docs: sphinxify sparse.txt and move to dev-tools Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> - 2016-08-09 10:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 09/10] docs: sphinxify kmemcheck.txt and move to dev-tools Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> - 2016-08-09 09:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 00/10] [RFC] Sphinxify and coalesce development-tool documents Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> - 2016-08-09 11:00 +0200

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