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xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH]: xl: poison data objects in auto-generated destr
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 17:19 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 17:17 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 15:49 +0100, Gianni Tedesco (3P) wrote:
> > > > Increase the probability of blowing up badly up during any
> > > > use-after-destroy scenarios.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > I'd suggest perhaps only for debug=y builds but we don't seem to
> > > propagate that concept into tools/ and it's probably not worth it
> > > anyhow.
> >
> > Agreed. We probably just want to revert this patch right before the
> > release, it might be worth to write a note about it somewhere.
>
> There's no way we'll remember to do that ;-)
>
> If we care (and I'm not sure how much of the toolstack code is likely to
> be performance critical at this level) then I think the time would be
> better spent making debug=[yn] do something under tools/libx?
>
> Ian.
Agreed. Also this type of stuff is nice to have in widespread testing
and bug tickling that "the idiot users out there" are so damn good at :)
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