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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Feb 21 2009 - 10:23:30 EST



* Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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