Re: [PATCH 03/10] Add the memory allocation/freeing hooks for kmemleak

["Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Hi Catalin

On 7/11/06, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index 85c2e03..2752272 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -2967,6 +2967,7 @@ #endif
>                 STATS_INC_ALLOCMISS(cachep);
>                 objp = cache_alloc_refill(cachep, flags);
>         }
> +       memleak_erase(&ac->entry[ac->avail]);
>         return objp;
>  }

Can't we tell the GC not to scan any of the array cache structs? You
could put that in alloc_arraycache(), I think.

> @@ -3209,7 +3211,11 @@ static void __cache_free(struct kmem_cac
>   */
>  void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
>  {
> -       return __cache_alloc(cachep, flags, __builtin_return_address(0));
> +       void *ptr = __cache_alloc(cachep, flags, __builtin_return_address(0));
> +
> +       memleak_alloc(ptr, obj_size(cachep), 1);

Can you move memleak_alloc() call to __cache_alloc() instead to avoid
duplication?