Re: [PATCH 1/2] kmemcheck v3

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Andi,

On Feb 8, 2008 2:10 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's probably tricky; there are all kinds of hidden page faults
> on x86 on data structures allocated as pages (e.g. GDT, LDT [which
> is sometimes kmalloc too], stack etc.)

Aah, I see. We can annotate those callers to disable the page faulting
but maybe that's not practical, dunno. Perhaps it's not such a big
problem to track slab objects only as those contain most of the
interesting ones anyway...
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