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From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 6/6] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:52:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44686B99.8020805@argo.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060513160625.8848.76947.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

Catalin Marinas wrote:
> 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.
>
>  
>  #include "util.h"
> @@ -389,6 +394,10 @@ void* ipc_rcu_alloc(int size)
>  	 */
>  	if (rcu_use_vmalloc(size)) {
>  		out = vmalloc(HDRLEN_VMALLOC + size);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMLEAK
> +		/* avoid a false alarm. That's not a memory leak */
> +		memleak_free(out);
> +#endif
>   

Maybe add a function memleak_false_alarm() (which just calls 
memleak_free()) to document the fact that nothing is actually freed.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-15 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-13 15:57 [RFC PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 0/6] Kernel memory leak detector Catalin Marinas
2006-05-13 16:05 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 1/6] Base support for kmemleak Catalin Marinas
2006-05-13 17:42   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-13 17:47     ` Roland Dreier
2006-05-14  7:24     ` Catalin Marinas
2006-05-14 17:32       ` Ingo Oeser
2006-05-15 10:15         ` Catalin Marinas
2006-05-13 18:11   ` Paul Jackson
2006-05-13 23:20   ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-14  8:19     ` Catalin Marinas
2006-05-15  9:15       ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-15 10:09         ` Catalin Marinas
2006-05-26  8:59     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-05-26  9:39       ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-26 11:31         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-05-26 16:37       ` Catalin Marinas
2006-05-26 17:47         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-05-26 21:49           ` Catalin Marinas
2006-05-26 22:01       ` Catalin Marinas
2006-05-14 14:53   ` Pekka Enberg
2006-05-14 15:30     ` Catalin Marinas
2006-05-14 15:52     ` Catalin Marinas
2006-05-13 16:05 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 2/6] Some documentation " Catalin Marinas
2006-05-13 16:06 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 3/6] Add the memory allocation/freeing hooks " Catalin Marinas
2006-05-14 14:49   ` Pekka Enberg
2006-05-13 16:06 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 4/6] Add kmemleak support for i386 Catalin Marinas
2006-05-13 18:24   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-13 21:20     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-14  7:28       ` Catalin Marinas
2006-05-13 16:06 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 5/6] Add kmemleak support for ARM Catalin Marinas
2006-05-13 18:25   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-13 16:06 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 6/6] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives Catalin Marinas
2006-05-13 19:21   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-14  7:31     ` Catalin Marinas
2006-05-14 14:55   ` Pekka Enberg
2006-05-14 15:39     ` Catalin Marinas
2006-05-14 17:39       ` Ingo Oeser
2006-05-15 10:12         ` Catalin Marinas
2006-05-15 18:32           ` Ingo Oeser
2006-05-15 11:52   ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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