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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:19:45 +0200
From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 01/11] kmemleak: Add the base support
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> OK, but I don't really see any fundamental reason why we couldn't do
> this. I mean, from my point of view, it would be better to add
> specialized hooks (i.e. separate allocation paths for the kmemleak hooks
> that avoid any issues) inside the SLAB allocators rather than invent a
> separate allocator. As an example,

Oops, I don't know where that "as an example" part came from so just
ignore it. :-)