Valgrind annotations for valgrind: memory is addressable once it's been alloced, and unaddressable when it is freed again. Can't use malloc-like and free-like because valgrind considers a malloc-like chunk indivisible.
Signed-off-by: Steve VanDeBogart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux-2.6.27-rc5/mm/page_alloc.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.27-rc5.orig/mm/page_alloc.c 2008-08-29 14:24:27.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.27-rc5/mm/page_alloc.c 2008-08-29 14:24:37.000000000 -0700 @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ #include <linux/page-isolation.h> #include <linux/memcontrol.h> #include <linux/debugobjects.h> +#include <linux/memcheck.h> #include <asm/tlbflush.h> #include <asm/div64.h> @@ -1080,6 +1081,7 @@ if (!page) goto failed; } + VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_UNDEFINED(page_address(page), PAGE_SIZE << order); __count_zone_vm_events(PGALLOC, zone, 1 << order); zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone); @@ -1679,6 +1681,8 @@ void __free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order) { if (put_page_testzero(page)) { + VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_NOACCESS(page_address(page), + PAGE_SIZE << order); if (order == 0) free_hot_page(page); else ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel