Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 5/6] slab: Annotate slab

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Steve,

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Steve VanDeBogart
<vandebo-lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But which bits of a slab object should be marked as initialized at
> kmem_cache_alloc() time?  We can't mark all of them as initialized
> because the constructor may not initialize all of them (in fact, I've
> programmatically confirmed that there are constructors that don't
> initialize all the bytes of an object).  The only place to get the
> information of interest is to mark all bytes uninitialized and then
> run the constructor on the memory region.

Aah, indeed. We should fix kmemcheck as well then.

                      Pekka
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