[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Replace racy object bookkeeping

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Wed Jul 24 12:01:37 CEST 2013


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:24:05AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> I'd like to have a fully reliable object count though since that should be
> useful for writing leak testcases. kmemleak isn't that reliable
> unfortunately. Looking at the debugfs stuff we already report
> bound+unbound (just separate) so I don't think this patch adds useful
> information.

It's not about adding useful information, it's about removing garbage
(negative object counts and sizes -> overflow) which concerns me more.
-Chris

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