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Message-Id: <1167236618.3281.3986.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:23:38 +0100
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@...il.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.13
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 16:14 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 17/12/06, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> > it would be nice to record 1) the jiffies value at the time of
> > allocation, 2) the PID and the comm of the task that did the allocation.
> > The jiffies timestamp would be useful to see the age of the allocation,
> > and the PID/comm is useful for context.
>
> Trying to copy the comm with get_task_comm, I get the lockdep report
> below, caused by acquiring the task's alloc_lock. Any idea how to go
> around this?
well you take the lock from irq context, which means it needs to use
_irqsave/restore everywhere. (and all locks taken inside it must be irq
safe as well)
maybe.. not use comm in irq context? it doesn't actually mean anything
there anyway...
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