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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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