On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:02:51AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 07:54:35PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > > Freeing memory is a requirement regardless. > > Even when kernel running with kasan, there must be a way to stop > > stack collection and free that memory. > > You cannot treat kernel as your test program or 'device under test'. > > Relax, that is exactly what lockdep does. It cannot dynamically allocate > things because allocators use lock etc.. > > Its fine to build up state for debug bits, esp. if its bounded, like the > number of unique callchains.
except the code in question is doing unbounded alloc_pages() -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
