Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 May 2006 11:12:18 +0100 | From | "Catalin Marinas" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 6/6] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives |
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On 14/05/06, Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> wrote: > 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...
I haven't looked at RT-Mutex but are more than the 2 bottom bits used for this? If not, they can be masked out before look-up. The slab allocator seems to always return blocks aligned to word size.
Thanks for pointing out.
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