Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck

* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck: (39 commits)
  signal: fix __send_signal() false positive kmemcheck warning
  fs: fix do_mount_root() false positive kmemcheck warning
  fs: introduce __getname_gfp()
  trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_event
  net: annotate struct sock bitfield
  c2port: annotate bitfield for kmemcheck
  net: annotate inet_timewait_sock bitfields
  ieee1394/csr1212: fix false positive kmemcheck report
  ieee1394: annotate bitfield
  net: annotate bitfields in struct inet_sock
  net: use kmemcheck bitfields API for skbuff
  kmemcheck: introduce bitfield API
  kmemcheck: add opcode self-testing at boot
  x86: unify pte_hidden
  x86: make _PAGE_HIDDEN conditional
  kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures
  kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig
  kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator
  kmemcheck: add hooks for page- and sg-dma-mappings
  kmemcheck: don't track page tables
  ...

71 files changed, 2899 insertions, 128 deletions

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+GETTING STARTED WITH KMEMCHECK
+==============================
+
+Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
+
+
+Contents
+========
+0. Introduction
+1. Downloading
+2. Configuring and compiling
+3. How to use
+3.1. Booting
+3.2. Run-time enable/disable
+3.3. Debugging
+3.4. Annotating false positives
+4. Reporting errors
+5. Technical description
+
+
+0. Introduction
+===============
+
+kmemcheck is a debugging feature for the Linux Kernel. More specifically, it
+is a dynamic checker that detects and warns about some uses of uninitialized
+memory.
+
+Userspace programmers might be familiar with Valgrind's memcheck. The main
+difference between memcheck and kmemcheck is that memcheck works for userspace
+programs only, and kmemcheck works for the kernel only. The implementations
+are of course vastly different. Because of this, kmemcheck is not as accurate
+as memcheck, but it turns out to be good enough in practice to discover real
+programmer errors that the compiler is not able to find through static
+analysis.
+
+Enabling kmemcheck on a kernel will probably slow it down to the extent that
+the machine will not be usable for normal workloads such as e.g. an
+interactive desktop. kmemcheck will also cause the kernel to use about twice
+as much memory as normal. For this reason, kmemcheck is strictly a debugging
+feature.
+
+
+1. Downloading
+==============
+
+kmemcheck can only be downloaded using git. If you want to write patches
+against the current code, you should use the kmemcheck development branch of
+the tip tree. It is also possible to use the linux-next tree, which also
+includes the latest version of kmemcheck.
+
+Assuming that you've already cloned the linux-2.6.git repository, all you
+have to do is add the -tip tree as a remote, like this:
+
+        $ git remote add tip git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git
+
+To actually download the tree, fetch the remote:
+
+        $ git fetch tip
+
+And to check out a new local branch with the kmemcheck code:
+
+        $ git checkout -b kmemcheck tip/kmemcheck
+
+General instructions for the -tip tree can be found here:
+http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/readme.txt
+
+
+2. Configuring and compiling
+============================
+
+kmemcheck only works for the x86 (both 32- and 64-bit) platform. A number of
+configuration variables must have specific settings in order for the kmemcheck
+menu to even appear in "menuconfig". These are:
+
+  o CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=n
+
+        This option is located under "General setup" / "Optimize for size".
+
+        Without this, gcc will use certain optimizations that usually lead to
+        false positive warnings from kmemcheck. An example of this is a 16-bit
+        field in a struct, where gcc may load 32 bits, then discard the upper