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[dpdk-dev,1/2] malloc: set pad to 0 on free

Message ID d364f98742dd9d18e25a2280dadfff08a02d9a2e.1525274971.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
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ci/checkpatch success coding style OK
ci/Intel-compilation success Compilation OK

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Anatoly Burakov May 2, 2018, 3:38 p.m. UTC 
  The pad value is not used unless element is in pad state, but it
will show up in heap dumps and may be confusing.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c
index af81961..0a86d34 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c
@@ -445,6 +445,8 @@  malloc_elem_free(struct malloc_elem *elem)
 
 	malloc_elem_free_list_insert(elem);
 
+	elem->pad = 0;
+
 	/* decrease heap's count of allocated elements */
 	elem->heap->alloc_count--;