Hi Catalin,
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> The gc roots are the data and bss sections (and maybe task kernel
> stacks) and all the slab-allocated blocks are scanned if a link to
> them is found from the roots (and all of them are usually scanned). If
> no link is found, they would be reported as memory leaks (and not
> scanned). You can't really avoid the scanning of allocated blocks
> since they may contain pointers to other blocks.
I am not sure you're agreeing or disagreeing :-). As far as I understood,
Ingo is worried about:
struct s { /* some fields */; char *buf; };
struct s *p = kmalloc(sizeof(struct s) + BUF_SIZE);
p->buf = p + sizeof(struct s);
Which could lead to false negative due to p->buf pointing to p. However,
for us to even _find_ p->buf, we would need an incoming pointer _to_ p
which makes me think this is not a problem in practice. Hmm?
Pekka
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