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    SubjectRe: Question about memory leak detector giving false positive report for net/core/flow.c
    On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Catalin Marinas wrote:

    > I tried this but it's tricky. The problem is that the percpu pointer
    > returned by alloc_percpu() does not directly point to the per-cpu chunks
    > and kmemleak would report most percpu allocations as leaks. So far the
    > workaround is to simply mark the alloc_percpu() objects as never leaking
    > and at least we avoid false positives in other areas. See the patch
    > below (note that you have to increase the CONFIG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
    > as there are many alloc_percpu() calls before kmemleak is fully
    > initialised):

    Seems that kernel.org is out and so tejon wont be seeing these.



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