linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace

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Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:39:20 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules

Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:19:29 am Catalin Marinas wrote:
>> This section contains pointers to allocated objects and not scanning it
>> leads to false positives.
>
> Thanks, applied.  Want me to push this for 2.6.32?

This patch requires 1/4 to be applied as it changes the kmemleak API a
bit, so it won't even compile on its own. I can push them both
together with your ack for the second.

I'm not sure whether API changes make sense during -rc releases, I was
more thinking of pushing the patches for 2.6.33.

For the current kernel, I could send you patch with the current API,
though calling kmemleak_scan_area() for _ftrace_events is a bit ugly.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin
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