Re: [PATCH] kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator

Ingo Molnar
2009-02-21T15:23:30Z

* Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote:

> This adds support for tracking the initializedness of memory
> that was allocated with the page allocator. Highmem requests
> are not tracked.

yeah - highmem pages are also rather uninteresting, as if
there's any uninitialized use going on we'll trigger it with
lowmem pages too - there's no highmem-only allocations in the
kernel.

Ingo