Messages in this thread | | | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 6/6] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives | Date | Sun, 14 May 2006 19:39:50 +0200 |
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Hi Catalin,
On Sunday, 14. May 2006 17:39, Catalin Marinas wrote: > Yet another false positive can be caused by allocation of a size that > differs from the structure's size (kmalloc(sizeof(struct...) + ...)) and > kmemleak cannot properly determine the container_of aliases. One example > is the platform_device_alloc function and a false positive is in > add_pcspkr in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c. > > I'll do more testing and post a new version next week (which will > include the suggestions I received so far).
While we are at it: How do you handle the encoding of info into the lower bits of a pointer? For Boehm GC, this was a major problem, AFAIR. At least the RT-Mutex code does this. There are others, but I'm to lazy to grep now...
Regards
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