Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 May 2006 14:52:57 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 6/6] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives |
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Catalin Marinas wrote: > From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> > > There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but they > are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them. > > > #include "util.h" > @@ -389,6 +394,10 @@ void* ipc_rcu_alloc(int size) > */ > if (rcu_use_vmalloc(size)) { > out = vmalloc(HDRLEN_VMALLOC + size); > +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMLEAK > + /* avoid a false alarm. That's not a memory leak */ > + memleak_free(out); > +#endif >
Maybe add a function memleak_false_alarm() (which just calls memleak_free()) to document the fact that nothing is actually freed.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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