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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: catalin.marinas@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 7/8] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 20:48:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060603204808.GB4629@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060603081134.31915.37367.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

Hi!

> From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> 
> There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but they
> are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them.

> @@ -1323,6 +1323,7 @@ legacy_init_iomem_resources(struct resou
>  		if (e820.map[i].addr + e820.map[i].size > 0x100000000ULL)
>  			continue;
>  		res = kzalloc(sizeof(struct resource), GFP_ATOMIC);
> +		memleak_debug_not_leak(res);

I'd suggest some shorter/more generic name.

	not_freed(res); ?

	alloc_forever(res); ?

-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-03 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-03  8:10 [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 0/8] Kernel memory leak detector 0.4 Catalin Marinas
2006-06-03  8:11 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 1/8] Base support for kmemleak Catalin Marinas
2006-06-03  8:11 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 2/8] Some documentation " Catalin Marinas
2006-06-03  8:11 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 3/8] Add the memory allocation/freeing hooks " Catalin Marinas
2006-06-03  8:11 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 4/8] Modules support " Catalin Marinas
2006-06-03  8:11 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 5/8] Add kmemleak support for i386 Catalin Marinas
2006-06-03  8:11 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 6/8] Add kmemleak support for ARM Catalin Marinas
2006-06-03  8:11 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 7/8] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives Catalin Marinas
2006-06-03 20:48   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-06-03 21:05     ` Catalin Marinas
2006-06-03 21:30       ` Pavel Machek
2006-06-03  8:11 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 8/8] Simple testing for kmemleak Catalin Marinas
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2006-06-04 21:56 [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 0/8] Kernel memory leak detector 0.5 Catalin Marinas
2006-06-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 7/8] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives Catalin Marinas

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