Messages in this thread |  | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Sat, 29 Oct 2016 23:29:32 +0200 | Subject | Re: linux-next: build warning in Linus' tree |
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Hi Linus,
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> >> I wonder if we should make KASAN depend on !COMPILE_TEST, because it >> does seem to disable a lot of build-time testing. > > Actually, we should probably just make the MEMORY_HOTPLUG dependency be > > depends on COMPILE_TEST || !KASAN > > since the memory-hotplug code should still *build* with KASAN, it just > doesn't work. That's exactly what the COMPILE_TEST config option is > there for - to get build coverage even for things that aren't > necessarily sane to run.
In what way does it not work? Does it crash? People do run COMPILE_TEST=y/allmodconfig kernels.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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