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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-10 13:58:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-10 13:58:11 -0700 |
| commit | 4c619407b0439c59c20398b9459020c0d297f424 (patch) | |
| tree | 17d5401aebd5fe00a4878353353e29fc8c569b89 /lib | |
| parent | 26b55633a891a28bf04f42882de145eb8e9cb9ad (diff) | |
| parent | 145b64b9588c123d2bd00981c5ce8e03215ed2ee (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm
* 'kmemleak' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm:
kmemleak: Fix typo in the comment
lib/scatterlist: Hook sg_kmalloc into kmemleak (v2)
kmemleak: Add DocBook style comments to kmemleak.c
kmemleak: Introduce a default off mode for kmemleak
kmemleak: Show more information for objects found by alias
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/scatterlist.c | 23 |
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 79e0dff1cdc..9e06b7f5ecf 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -410,6 +410,13 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST If unsure, say N. +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF + bool "Default kmemleak to off" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + help + Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled + on the command line via kmemleak=on. + config DEBUG_PREEMPT bool "Debug preemptible kernel" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c index 9afa25b52a8..a5ec42868f9 100644 --- a/lib/scatterlist.c +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/scatterlist.h> #include <linux/highmem.h> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h> /** * sg_next - return the next scatterlist entry in a list @@ -115,17 +116,29 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_init_one); */ static struct scatterlist *sg_kmalloc(unsigned int nents, gfp_t gfp_mask) { - if (nents == SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC) - return (struct scatterlist *) __get_free_page(gfp_mask); - else + if (nents == SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC) { + /* + * Kmemleak doesn't track page allocations as they are not + * commonly used (in a raw form) for kernel data structures. + * As we chain together a list of pages and then a normal + * kmalloc (tracked by kmemleak), in order to for that last + * allocation not to become decoupled (and thus a + * false-positive) we need to inform kmemleak of all the + * intermediate allocations. + */ + void *ptr = (void *) __get_free_page(gfp_mask); + kmemleak_alloc(ptr, PAGE_SIZE, 1, gfp_mask); + return ptr; + } else return kmalloc(nents * sizeof(struct scatterlist), gfp_mask); } static void sg_kfree(struct scatterlist *sg, unsigned int nents) { - if (nents == SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC) + if (nents == SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC) { + kmemleak_free(sg); free_page((unsigned long) sg); - else + } else kfree(sg); } |