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

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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:17:33 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Uninline kcalloc()

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:59:56 EDT, Kyle Moffett said:

> Proper fix is to give __kmalloc a "void *caller" parameter and have  
> all of the various wrapper functions pass in the value of  
> __builtin_return_address() appropriately.  I believe that even works  
> properly for inline functions which may or may not be inlined.

I think I looked at that, and it wasn't as easy as it looked, because there
were ugly corner cases for what __builtin_return_address() returned depending
on exactly what did or didn't get inlined. Basically, it's ugly stuff - if you
try to use __builtin_retur_address inside kcalloc to pass to __kmalloc, and
then kcalloc gets inlined, you end up passing not the routine you wanted (the
caller of kcalloc), but the *parent* of that...

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