From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.35-rc6 patch] increase kmemleak robustness at boot
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:12:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C519A6E.8000002@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik-M_=G4Ks=U6hRm1dBTzbzovR47jdhjTjNqekX@mail.gmail.com>
Daniel J Blueman wrote:
>> I would rather change the static early alloc buffer with something
>> like bootmem allocation (the recursiveness should be bound, kmemleak
>> tracks bootmem allocations as well). But I'm on holiday until middle
>> of August and not able to do any tests in this area.
>
> Indeed, moving to dynamic early allocation is all the more better. For
> now, I'll increase the early allocation to 15200 elements, as the
> 400-entry buffer wraps 38.
If it's just kmemleak_init() we're talking about, slab caches are up at
that point so you can just use kmalloc().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-29 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 16:40 Daniel J Blueman
2010-07-28 16:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-28 18:39 ` Daniel J Blueman
2010-07-29 11:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-07-29 12:48 ` Daniel J Blueman
2010-07-29 15:12 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2010-07-29 18:03 ` Daniel J Blueman
2010-07-29 18:50 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-29 20:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-07-31 9:42 ` Pekka Enberg
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