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From: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kmemleak tree
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:49:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090115174921.GA5314@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232021097.32016.25.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:04:57PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> The only issue is that kmemleak would need to register the callbacks
> before the slab allocator is initialised (otherwise it may miss some
> allocations). So it would need a 3-stage initialisation - pre-slab,
> post-slab and late_initcall.

Sure, that is not a problem, as kmemtrace needn't be compiled in for
the tracepoints to work. As long as they're defined in some header and
included, you can register multiple probes from all over the kernel.
This also means you won't have to interact with kmemtrace code.


	Eduard

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-15 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-15  5:27 linux-next: manual merge of the kmemleak tree Stephen Rothwell
2009-01-15 10:29 ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2009-01-15 10:38   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-15 12:04   ` Catalin Marinas
2009-01-15 12:27     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-15 17:49     ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu [this message]
2009-04-21 11:14       ` Catalin Marinas
2009-04-21 11:47         ` Catalin Marinas
2009-04-21 18:02           ` Pekka Enberg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-19  5:16 Stephen Rothwell
2009-01-15  5:27 Stephen Rothwell
2009-01-15  5:27 Stephen Rothwell
2009-01-15  5:27 Stephen Rothwell
2009-01-15  5:26 Stephen Rothwell

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