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Message-Id: <1228935184.9737.91.camel@nimitz>
Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:53:04 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing
	hooks

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 18:27 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> @@ -3195,6 +3203,8 @@ static inline void *____cache_alloc(struct
> kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
>                 STATS_INC_ALLOCMISS(cachep);
>                 objp = cache_alloc_refill(cachep, flags);
>         }
> +       /* avoid false negatives */
> +       memleak_erase(&ac->entry[ac->avail]);
>         return objp;
>  }

It would be really nice here to say *how* it is avoiding false
negatives. :)

How about:

/* Don't let the pointer from the slab itself count as referencing */

-- Dave

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