Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce QEMU_NEW()

Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-25T14:51:34Z

On 07/25/2011 04:23 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> > Yes. We can just make qemu_malloc use g_malloc.
>
> It would be also possible to make g_malloc() use qemu_malloc(). That
> way we could keep the tracepoints which would lose their value with
> g_malloc() otherwise.

qemu_malloc uses g_malloc => you keep tracepoints, you just do not trace
memory allocated by glib

g_malloc uses qemu_malloc => you keep and expand tracepoints, you lose
the very nicely tuned allocator

The former is much less code, however it requires qemu_malloc to be
always balanced with qemu_free (patches ready and on my github tree,
won't be sent before KVM Forum though...).

Paolo