Re: [PATCH 07/15] kmemleak: Add memleak_alloc callback fromalloc_large_system_hash

[Catalin Marinas]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 09:30 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 09:50 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > Since alloc_large_system_hash() is using bootmem (and is called early),
> > > I'm a little surprised that it is OK to call into memleak_alloc() which
> > > uses kmem_cache_alloc().  Is the slab even set up at this point?
> > 
> > It doesn't need to be. Early callbacks like this are logged by kmemleak
> > in a buffer and properly registered once the slab allocator is fully
> > initialised (slab initialisation needs to allocate some memory for
> > itself as well).
> 
> Ahh, thanks for the clarification.  Could you add something to the code
> to this effect?

Do you mean a comment? I can do this.

-- 
Catalin

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