Re: [PATCH 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.8

[Catalin Marinas]

On 11/07/06, Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/07/06, Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When I set DEBUG_KEEP_INIT=n everything works fine.
>
> I was wrong.

You mean the previous e-mail wasn't a kmemleak bug?

> Here is the new error
> /usr/src/linux-work4/kernel/pid.c: In function 'pid_task':
> /usr/src/linux-work4/kernel/pid.c:262: error: initializer element is
> not constant
> /usr/src/linux-work4/kernel/pid.c:262: error: (near initialization for
> '__memleak_offset__container_of.offset')
> make[2]: *** [kernel/pid.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [kernel] Error 2
> make: *** [_all] Error 2

That's a bug in gcc-4. The __builtin_constant_p() function always
returns true even when the argument is not a constant. You could try a
gcc-3.4 or a patched gcc.

--
Catalin
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