linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/15] kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks

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Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:46:02 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cl@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing
	hooks

On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 14:27 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > Do you take care of the per-node lists as well?
> 
> I can't figure out what other location should be erased.

As far as I can tell, you need to tell kmemleak not to scan the alien
caches and the shared array that is shared by all CPUs that belong to
one node. I'm adding Christoph to the CC in case he wants to comment on
this.

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