Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:27:50 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API |
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:40:47PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > 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.
This sounds as if this might cause bugs to disappear when debugging gets turned on?
Or do I miss anything?
cu Adrian
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