Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:35:50 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/15] kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks |
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> OK, but is there a chance that an stale pointer remains in such caches?
Definitely. The pointers are never cleared. There are counters in the caches that are used to index into an array.
> There seems to be the transfer_objects() function that moves pointers > around but doesn't clear the source values.
No need to. The counter updates take care of things.
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