Hi Linus,
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Linus Torvalds
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <[email protected]> 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
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