Re: [PATCH] block: kmemleak: Track the page allocations for struct request

2015-11-25 Thread William Dauchy
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: > I'd say it's borderline. It's fixing a tracking bug. Unless others feel > strongly otherwise, I don't think it's stable material. ok thanks for your feedback. -- William -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

Re: [PATCH] block: kmemleak: Track the page allocations for struct request

2015-11-25 Thread Jens Axboe
On 11/25/2015 04:04 AM, William Dauchy wrote: Hi Jens, On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: On 09/14/2015 11:16 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: The pages allocated for struct request contain pointers to other slab allocations (via ops->init_request). Since kmemleak does not track/sc

Re: [PATCH] block: kmemleak: Track the page allocations for struct request

2015-11-25 Thread William Dauchy
Hi Jens, On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 09/14/2015 11:16 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: >> >> The pages allocated for struct request contain pointers to other slab >> allocations (via ops->init_request). Since kmemleak does not track/scan >> page allocations, the slab objects

Re: [PATCH] block: kmemleak: Track the page allocations for struct request

2015-09-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On 09/14/2015 11:16 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: The pages allocated for struct request contain pointers to other slab allocations (via ops->init_request). Since kmemleak does not track/scan page allocations, the slab objects will be reported as leaks (false positives). This patch adds kmemleak cal

[PATCH] block: kmemleak: Track the page allocations for struct request

2015-09-14 Thread Catalin Marinas
The pages allocated for struct request contain pointers to other slab allocations (via ops->init_request). Since kmemleak does not track/scan page allocations, the slab objects will be reported as leaks (false positives). This patch adds kmemleak callbacks to allow tracking of such pages. Signed-o