Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 May 2008 13:04:03 +0200 | From | "Bart Van Assche" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmemcheck v7 |
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On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: > Bart Van Assche wrote: >> >> It's a bit late but I finally found out about your announcement of >> kmemcheck version 7. Are you familiar with the patch that adds support >> to Valgrind for User Mode Linux ? I'm not sure what the best approach >> is -- letting the kernel do its own checking like kmemcheck or extend >> Valgrind such that it supports UML. Anyway, the techniques applied in >> Valgrind may be useful for kmemcheck too, such as the algorithms used >> in Valgrind to compress the memory state information. > > It's better to do it with the native kernel so you can "valgrind" all the > interesting driver code.
That's right. This is the paper I was referring to that details how to minimize the memory consumption when tracking state information: http://www.valgrind.org/docs/shadow-memory2007.pdf
Bart.
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