Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-36,: Re: v2.3.17pre1 - Patches, Complaints, Questions and Jubilations

# Re: v2.3.17pre1 - Patches, Complaints, Questions and Jubilations

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 02:03:25 +0200 (CEST)

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On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Mike Galbraith wrote:

>but you have to use it carefully. (teaching the kernel to not unload
>modules which have active memory allocations would cost even more ugly
>ifdefs for no real benefit)

Agreed. I don't care at all if rmmod of ppp will break a
memleak-detector-kernel because the skbufs at free-time still are
referncing the vmalloced area someway. Right now the rule is "while
serching for memlekas never rmmod modules" and that's fine IMHO ;).

Andrea

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