[PATCH] kmemleak: Allow kmemleak to be built on powerpc

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Jul 17 03:52:19 EST 2009


On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 17:43 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 11:25 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Very lightly tested, doesn't crash the kernel.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>
> > ---
> > 
> > It doesn't look like we actually need to add any support in the
> > arch code - or is there something I'm missing?
> 
> Hmm, I think we want to add annotations in lib/lmb.c don't we? That's
> our low-level pre-bootmem allocator.

Yes, I think so (I'm not using this on ARM or x86 so I can't really test
it). Without these hooks, there kmemleak reports aren't that useful
(probably too many).

-- 
Catalin



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