linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm/slab: remove kmemleak

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Date:	Thu, 8 Jan 2015 12:01:43 +0000
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm/slab: remove kmemleak_erase() call

On 5 January 2015 at 01:37, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com> wrote:
> We already call kmemleak_no_scan() in initialization step of array cache,
> so kmemleak doesn't scan array cache. Therefore, we don't need to call
> kmemleak_erase() here.
>
> And, this call is the last caller of kmemleak_erase(), so remove
> kmemleak_erase() definition completely.

Good point.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

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Catalin
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