[FE training-materials-updates] Kernel slides: stop mentioning 2.6.31, too old

Michael Opdenacker michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com
Tue Feb 4 23:12:39 CET 2014


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commit adcbac408eb83c6d204514274238ca9f3f738667
Author: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 4 23:11:45 2014 +0100

    Kernel slides: stop mentioning 2.6.31, too old
    
    - for the kmemcheck and kmemleak features
    
    Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com>


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adcbac408eb83c6d204514274238ca9f3f738667
 .../kernel-driver-development-memory.tex           |   27 +++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/slides/kernel-driver-development-memory/kernel-driver-development-memory.tex b/slides/kernel-driver-development-memory/kernel-driver-development-memory.tex
index 2b75a4c..c44e3af 100644
--- a/slides/kernel-driver-development-memory/kernel-driver-development-memory.tex
+++ b/slides/kernel-driver-development-memory/kernel-driver-development-memory.tex
@@ -385,22 +385,19 @@ kfree(work);
 \begin{frame}
   \frametitle{Kernel memory debugging}
   \begin{itemize}
-  \item Debugging features available since 2.6.31
+  \item \code{Kmemcheck}
     \begin{itemize}
-    \item \code{Kmemcheck}
-      \begin{itemize}
-      \item Dynamic checker for access to uninitialized memory.
-      \item Only available on \code{x86} so far (Linux 3.10-rc5 status), but will
-        help to improve architecture independent code anyway.
-      \item See \kerneldoc{kmemcheck.txt} for details.
-      \end{itemize}
-    \item \code{Kmemleak}
-      \begin{itemize}
-      \item Dynamic checker for memory leaks
-      \item This feature is available for all architectures.
-      \item See \kerneldoc{kmemleak.txt} for details.
-      \end{itemize}
+    \item Dynamic checker for access to uninitialized memory.
+    \item Only available on \code{x86} so far (Linux 3.10-rc5 status), but will
+      help to improve architecture independent code anyway.
+    \item See \kerneldoc{kmemcheck.txt} for details.
+    \end{itemize}
+  \item \code{Kmemleak}
+    \begin{itemize}
+    \item Dynamic checker for memory leaks
+    \item This feature is available for all architectures.
+    \item See \kerneldoc{kmemleak.txt} for details.
     \end{itemize}
-  \item Both have a significant overhead. Only use them in development!
   \end{itemize}
+  Both have a significant overhead. Only use them in development!
 \end{frame}



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