Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6 7/9] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives

[Pekka J Enberg]

Hi,

On 12/06/06, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Can we fix this by looking for pointers to anywhere in the allocated
> > memory block instead of just looking for the start?

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> I thought about this as well (I think that's how Valgrind works) but
> it would increase the chances of missing real leaks.

Yeah but that's far better than adding bunch of 'not a leak' annotations 
around the kernel which is very impractical to maintain.  I would like to 
see your leak detector in the kernel so we can finally get rid of all 
those per-subsystem magic allocators.  This patch, however, is 
unacceptable for inclusion IMHO.

				Pekka
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