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

[Andi Kleen]

Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> writes:
> But it's not just about the amount of false negatives, but also about 
> the overhead of scanning. You are concentrated on embedded systems with 
> small RAM - but most of the testers will be running this with at last 
> 1GB of RAM - which is _alot_ of memory to scan.

Most of this should be normally in page cache which doesn't need to be scanned?

There might be some extreme loads with a lot more kernel data, but they
are probably rare.

-Andi 
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