Re: [PATCH] cgroup/kmemcheck: No need to annotate base anymore

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 13:41 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> > We can still fall back to vmalloc allocation (even though it is really
> > not probable that alloc_pages_exact_nid would fail that early).
> > Is vmalloc a problem here? (sorry I am not familiar with kmemleak
> > internals) The original code didn't distinguish kmalloc vs. vmalloc.
> > 
> 
> Good question. I forgot to add the maintainer of kmemleak to the Cc
> list. (fixed here).

Depending on the answer, I suspect that the result will be to keep the
not_leak call, and just add a call directly to kmemleak_alloc() in the
page_alloc() side.

I'll have a patch ready on hand when we find out :)

-- Steve


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