On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think I looked at that, and it wasn't as easy as it looked, because there > were ugly corner cases for what __builtin_return_address() returned depending > on exactly what did or didn't get inlined. Basically, it's ugly stuff - if you > try to use __builtin_retur_address inside kcalloc to pass to __kmalloc, and > then kcalloc gets inlined, you end up passing not the routine you wanted (the > caller of kcalloc), but the *parent* of that...
Note that this can be done in a clean way in SLUB using slab_alloc() which takes a address parameter as obtained from __builtin_return_address(). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
