On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:08:23PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> I think he means how to handle the following from include/linux/gfp.h in
> valgrind:
>
> struct page *alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order);
> unsigned long __get_free_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order);
>
> void __free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
> void free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order);
Oh yeah, good point.
The unsigned long ones are easy - they are addresses disguised as
numbers.
You have to tell valgrind somehow that the object size is
(1 << order) * PAGE_SIZE
About the struct page ones - I see two possibilities.
1 - You communicate to valgrind somehow that there is a mapping
between the page struct and the virtual address it represents. There
is a is no page_to_virt (although there is a virt_to_page), but one
would be easy to add. For UML, it amounts to
uml_physmem + (page - mem_map) * PAGE_SIZE
2 - You can insist that UML defines WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL which, if I'm
reading the code correctly, will set page->virtual to the address
represented by the page. Valgrind then somehow has to know how to
reach into the page struct and get the address.
Jeff
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