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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 Golden] Unified trace buffer
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks! I must have been lucky some how not to trigger this :-/
> > 
> 
> My guess is that you never free your buffers in your test cases. I don't
> know if it was expected; probably not if your code is built into the
> kernel.

Actually my resize does free the buffers and I did test this. I probably 
never ran the trace when testing the freeing which means those pointers 
could have luckily not have been changed.

-- Steve