[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH]: xl: poison data objects in auto-generated destructors

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.


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