Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:24:00 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/23] drm: introduce drm_zalloc |
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:20:32PM -0400, Kristian H?gsberg wrote: > > The wrappers aren't useless the drm alloc/free passes in a memory space > > for debugging purposes so we can track memory abuse when developing, > > Do we ever use that, though? Having to pass in the pointer, the size > and the area just to free memory, sure is a bitch.
Note the slab has a memory tracking feature that accounts memory to callers of the allocator. IF that's not enough for you please help improving the common code instead of inventing your own.
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