Re: 2.6.22-rc7: known regressions with patches v2

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> What are these functions "malloc" and "free"? Would be good if those 
> would be using kmalloc_track_caller() so that we can figure out who called 
> them.

There's not a lot of those around. Looks like it's probably one of

	init/do_mounts_rd.c:static void __init *malloc(size_t size)
	init/initramfs.c:static void __init *malloc(size_t size)

both of which exist just because those things include "lib/inflate.c".

It's probably do_mounts_rd.c, because initramfs.c defines malloc/free 
before the #include, and I would have expected gcc to just inline them in 
that case.

That's probably the right thign to do in do_mounts_rd.c too, rather than 
adding any kmalloc_track_caller() stuff.

		Linus