Re: [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Alexey,

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:32:23PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > How do you feel about this patch? It's all about making kmemcheck more
> > useful... and not much else. Does it have any chance of entering the
> > kernel along with kmemcheck (when/if that happens)?
>
> DEFINE_BITFIELD is horrible.

Heh, heh, one alternative is to have a kmemcheck_memset() thingy that 
unconditionally zeroes bit fields and maybe is a no-op when kmemcheck is 
disabled.
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