Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce QEMU_NEW()

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/25/2011 04:23 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> >  Yes.  We can just make qemu_malloc use g_malloc.
>
> It would be also possible to make g_malloc() use qemu_malloc(). That
> way we could keep the tracepoints which would lose their value with
> g_malloc() otherwise.

qemu_malloc uses g_malloc => you keep tracepoints, you just do not trace 
memory allocated by glib

g_malloc uses qemu_malloc => you keep and expand tracepoints, you lose 
the very nicely tuned allocator

The former is much less code, however it requires qemu_malloc to be 
always balanced with qemu_free (patches ready and on my github tree, 
won't be sent before KVM Forum though...).

Paolo