1. Jul 29, 2010
    • Chris Wilson's avatar
      lib/scatterlist: Hook sg_kmalloc into kmemleak (v2) · b94de9bb
      Chris Wilson authored
      
      
      kmemleak ignores page_alloc() and so believes the final sub-page
      allocation using the plain kmalloc is decoupled and lost. This leads to
      lots of false-positives with code that uses scatterlists.
      
      The options seem to be either to tell kmemleak that the kmalloc is not
      leaked or to notify kmemleak of the page allocations. The danger of the
      first approach is that we may hide a real leak, so choose the latter
      approach (of which I am not sure of the downsides).
      
      v2: Added comments on the suggestion of Catalin.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      b94de9bb
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