[GIT PULL] kmemcheck updates for tip/kmemcheck

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Fri Aug 29 2008 - 17:19:41 EST


Hi Ingo,

A rather large update, most of it is implementing the correct REP MOVS/STOS
handling on P4s. I've tested it on both 32-bit and 64-bit and everything
seems good! Also included is the DMA API hooks which prevents false-positive
reports from reads in DMA-able memory.

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The following changes since commit d99de804af81f223445368b8cb40d44ff12ec89a:
Ingo Molnar (1):
Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc3' into kmemcheck

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck.git for-tip2

Vegard Nossum (7):
kmemcheck: add DMA hooks
kmemcheck: work with sizes in terms of bytes instead of bits
kmemcheck: allow memory accesses that cross page boundaries
kmemcheck: add some more documentation
kmemcheck: add some comments
kmemcheck: save memory contents on use of uninitialized memory
kmemcheck: implement REP MOVS/STOS emulation

arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c | 8 +-
arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c | 8 +-
arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/error.c | 25 +++-
arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c | 322 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/opcode.c | 38 ++++--
arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/opcode.h | 3 +-
arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/shadow.c | 76 ++--------
arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/string.c | 4 +
include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h | 2 +
include/asm-x86/kmemcheck.h | 6 +
include/linux/kmemcheck.h | 16 ++
mm/kmemcheck.c | 6 +
13 files changed, 339 insertions(+), 177 deletions(-)

Thanks,


Vegard
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