Re: [2.6.35-rc6 patch] increase kmemleak robustness at boot

[Pekka Enberg]

Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> > I would rather change the static early alloc buffer with something
> > like bootmem allocation (the recursiveness should be bound, kmemleak
> > tracks bootmem allocations as well). But I'm on holiday until middle
> > of August and not able to do any tests in this area.
>
> Indeed, moving to dynamic early allocation is all the more better. For
> now, I'll increase the early allocation to 15200 elements, as the
> 400-entry buffer wraps 38.

If it's just kmemleak_init() we're talking about, slab caches are up at 
that point so you can just use kmalloc().
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