Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmemcheck v7

[Bart Van Assche]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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