On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 06:07:39PM +0100, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> kmemleak uses a tree where each node represents an allocated memory object
> in order to quickly find out what object a given address is part of.
> However, the objects don't overlap, so rbtrees are a better choice than
> prio tree for this use. They are both faster and have lower memory overhead.
> 
> Tested by booting a kernel with kmemleak enabled, loading the kmemleak_test
> module, and looking for the expected messages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <wal...@google.com>

The patch looks fine to me but I'll give it a test later today and let
you know.

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