From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] kmemleak: Add the base support
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:03:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081204110312.cd2a1be0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228416646.19553.117.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:50:46 +0000 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> Or, is there a way to tell whether it's in a kernel
> thread or user process context? Checking current->mm?
Yup, that'll work. There might be small windows during process startup
and termination where a real process can have a NULL ->mm, but those
are probably benign in this case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-04 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-29 10:43 [PATCH 00/15] Kernel memory leak detector Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 10:43 ` [PATCH 01/15] kmemleak: Add the base support Catalin Marinas
2008-12-01 5:39 ` Yasunori Goto
2008-12-01 6:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-01 8:11 ` Yasunori Goto
2008-12-01 12:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-12-01 7:15 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-02 21:28 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-04 18:50 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-12-04 19:03 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-12-18 9:28 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 10:43 ` [PATCH 02/15] kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 10:43 ` [PATCH 03/15] kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 10:43 ` [PATCH 04/15] kmemleak: Add the slob " Catalin Marinas
2008-11-30 17:30 ` Matt Mackall
2008-11-29 10:43 ` [PATCH 05/15] kmemleak: Add the slub " Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 11:46 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-11-29 10:43 ` [PATCH 06/15] kmemleak: Add the vmalloc " Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 10:43 ` [PATCH 07/15] kmemleak: Add memleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 10:43 ` [PATCH 08/15] kmemleak: Add modules support Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 10:43 ` [PATCH 09/15] x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux_*.lds.S files Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 10:44 ` [PATCH 10/15] arm: Provide _sdata and __bss_stop in the vmlinux.lds.S file Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 10:44 ` [PATCH 11/15] kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 11:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-11-30 19:02 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 10:44 ` [PATCH 12/15] kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 10:44 ` [PATCH 13/15] kmemleak: Keep the __init functions after initialization Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 10:44 ` [PATCH 14/15] kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak Catalin Marinas
2008-11-29 10:44 ` [PATCH 15/15] kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry Catalin Marinas
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-10 18:26 [PATCH 00/15] Kernel memory leak detector Catalin Marinas
2008-12-10 18:26 ` [PATCH 01/15] kmemleak: Add the base support Catalin Marinas
2008-12-11 22:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-12 11:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-12-12 13:14 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-16 19:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-12-17 9:44 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-12-17 17:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
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