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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 3] libxl: memory leaks

To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 3] libxl: memory leaks
From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:11:43 +0100
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On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 13:31 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> The following fix a few memory leaks.
> 
> The first was discussed on list and it was decided that although it
> wasn't a real leak, since the memory is allocated exactly once per
> thread and is correctly cleaned up on pthread_exit(), it was still
> useful for xl (a non-threaded application) to be able to be completely
> valgrind clean for the purposes of auditing libxl.
> 
> The leaks fixed in xl create are just a subset since I didn't delve
> into recursively freeing the types defined by libxl yet. There are
> also leaks in the lexer and parser which I didn't tackle yet.

These patches are all good news. You should be aware (if not already)
that we have a plan for dealing with the majority of remaining leaks, I
was going to implement it after my current PCI work. So if you are going
to go all the way with this we should talk... :)

Thanks


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