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by m00dy 3447 days ago
you can run the kernel in userspace so that valgrind can attach to it.
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lisivka 3447 days ago
It was done for UML kernel 2.6 with patches: http://web.archive.org/web/20100126181646/http://uml.jfdi.or... .

But today, it's impossible:

http://marc.info/?l=user-mode-linux-user&m=140187124116532&w...

> > So, is it possible to run linux (>3.12) with valgrind? If yes, how to do it?

> No.

> A long time ago it was possible after applying a patch to both UML and valgrind.

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hannob 3446 days ago
But why would you want to? There's kasan, which is faster and catches more bug classes.
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