linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 07/11] kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives

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Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:09:04 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 07/11] kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak
	false positives


* Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:

>  	for (currcons = 0; currcons < MIN_NR_CONSOLES; currcons++) {
>  		vc_cons[currcons].d = vc = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct vc_data));
> +		/* kmemleak does not track the memory allocated via
> +		 * alloc_bootmem() but this block contains pointers to
> +		 * other blocks allocated via kmalloc */
> +		memleak_alloc(vc, sizeof(struct vc_data), 1);

Comment style - and that is true for other bits of your patchset too.

	Ingo
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