linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Uninline kcalloc()

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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:13:19 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Uninline kcalloc()

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:44:35 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan said:

> Interesting. Here is output from kernel with patch applied and leak
> plugged into proc_dointvec() (I checked twice):
> 
>         $ grep kcalloc /proc/slab_allocators
>         $ grep proc_dointvec /proc/slab_allocators
>         size-64: 19 proc_dointvec+0x48/0xa0

Argh, went to "cancel" that previous msg and retry when I realized you meant it was
with *your* patch installed, managed to send it anyhow..

I wonder if the only reason it's working for you is because gcc is doing
some tail-recursion magic on the kcalloc() call (which calls to __kmalloc),
which just happens to make it work, and if the tail-recursion wasn't happening
it would be busticated.

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