Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:41:55 -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, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> For kmemleak, that's a problem. Unless we explicitly annotate the > caches, it will scan them and think that there's a pointer to a leaked > object (i.e. false negative). Catalin already took care of the per-CPU > caches but AFAICT we still need to take care of the per-node caches > and the shared caches.
Why doesnt kmemleak simply use the counter as a boundary and only access those pointers that are valid?
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