Re: [PATCH 01/15] kmemleak: Add the base support

[Yasunori Goto]

Hello.

I have a question. (may be silly)

> +/*
> + * Insert a pointer into the pointer hash table.
> + */
> +static inline void create_object(unsigned long ptr, size_t size, int ref_count)
> +{
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +	struct memleak_object *object;
> +	struct prio_tree_node *node;
> +	struct stack_trace trace;
> +
> +	object = kmem_cache_alloc(object_cache, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	if (!object)
> +		panic("kmemleak: cannot allocate a memleak_object structure\n");

IIRC, GFP_ATOMIC allocation sometimes fails. (ex. when page cache occupies all
area). It seems to be easy to panic. Is it intended? 


Thanks.
-- 
Yasunori Goto 


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