Re: [PATCH v4] kmemleak: survive in a low-memory situation

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Hi,

On 27/03/2019 2.59, Qian Cai wrote:
Unless there is a brave soul to reimplement the kmemleak to embed it's
metadata into the tracked memory itself in a foreseeable future, this
provides a good balance between enabling kmemleak in a low-memory
situation and not introducing too much hackiness into the existing
code for now.

Unfortunately I am not that brave soul, but I'm wondering what the complication here is? It shouldn't be too hard to teach calculate_sizes() in SLUB about a new SLAB_KMEMLEAK flag that reserves spaces for the metadata.

- Pekka




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