Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:03:12 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] kmemleak: Add the base support
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On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:50:46 +0000 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:

> Or, is there a way to tell whether it's in a kernel
> thread or user process context? Checking current->mm?

Yup, that'll work.  There might be small windows during process startup
and termination where a real process can have a NULL ->mm, but those
are probably benign in this case.

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