Hi Catalin,
On Sunday, 14. May 2006 17:39, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Yet another false positive can be caused by allocation of a size that
> differs from the structure's size (kmalloc(sizeof(struct...) + ...)) and
> kmemleak cannot properly determine the container_of aliases. One example
> is the platform_device_alloc function and a false positive is in
> add_pcspkr in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c.
>
> I'll do more testing and post a new version next week (which will
> include the suggestions I received so far).
While we are at it: How do you handle the encoding of
info into the lower bits of a pointer? For Boehm GC,
this was a major problem, AFAIR. At least the RT-Mutex code
does this. There are others, but I'm to lazy to grep now...
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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