On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 07:28:33PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 5 May 2011, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
>
> > Last quasi-random question of the night: would reviving the kmemcheck
> > ARM port (that IIRC was hacked up a while back) be something useful, or
> > is it something that is too niche to be worth it? At the board's
> > request, I was looking across platform gaps and this feature was one of
> > the things that I found.
>
> I can't find any ARM port for this. And this is not exactly trivial to
> make this work on ARM either (even though this would be an interesting
> challenge).
Hmmm. I thought I had seen one. Mmm. What about
http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg56221.html
> The prerequisite for kmemcheck on ARM would be to have the kernel direct
> mapping of memory use second level page tables, which might possibly be
> useful to the multimedia memory allocator work too.
Does the patch above implement that, though?
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