CONFIG_KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK: kmemcheck: allow partially uninitialized memory

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK:

• prompt: kmemcheck: allow partially uninitialized memory
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
• defined in lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.31–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.14

Help text

This option works around certain GCC optimizations that produce 32-bit reads from 16-bit variables where the upper 16 bits are thrown away afterwards. This may of course also hide some real bugs.

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