Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Vegard Nossum <> | Subject | [PATCH 2/4] kmemcheck: add __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag | Date | Sat, 16 May 2009 11:51:18 +0200 |
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In contrast to __GFP_NOTRACK, this flag indicates that the allocation should not be tracked _because_ it would produce a false positive. Their values are identical, but need not be so in the future (for example, we could now enable/disable false positives with a config option).
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> --- include/linux/gfp.h | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index 2700097..3885e7f 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ struct vm_area_struct; #define __GFP_NOTRACK ((__force gfp_t)0) #endif +/* + * This may seem redundant, but it's a way of annotating false positives vs. + * allocations that simply cannot be supported (e.g. page tables). + */ +#define __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE (__GFP_NOTRACK) + #define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT 22 /* Room for 22 __GFP_FOO bits */ #define __GFP_BITS_MASK ((__force gfp_t)((1 << __GFP_BITS_SHIFT) - 1)) -- 1.6.0.6
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