Re: [PATCH] 2.6.16-rc1-mm1 - produce useful info for kzalloc with DEBUG_SLAB

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Valdis,

On 1/19/06, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> The following patch makes a few minor changes so the CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
> statistics report the actual caller for kzalloc() - otherwise its call to
> kmalloc() just points at kzalloc().  Basically, we force __always_inline on
> several routines, so the __builtin_return_address calls point where we
> want them to point, even if gcc wouldn't otherwise do it.

Couldn't we use this [1] trick Steven came up with for this?

  1. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/362494

                                    Pekka
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