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SubjectRe: [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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