On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:36 AM, yoma sophian <sophian.yoma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi all: > I found in alloc_bootmem_bdata, kmem_cache_alloc, kmalloc, vmalloc, > they will call kmemleak_alloc. > > Would anyone know why we have to do so for calling kmemleak_alloc at > different places? AFAIK this is used for accounting allocated memory in order to easily track down memory leaks. It is implemented by the kmemleak detector. thanks, Daniel. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
