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Vladimir Davydov
8f4fc071b1 gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT
Not all kmem allocations should be accounted to memcg.  The following
patch gives an example when accounting of a certain type of allocations to
memcg can effectively result in a memory leak.  This patch adds the
__GFP_NOACCOUNT flag which if passed to kmalloc and friends will force the
allocation to go through the root cgroup.  It will be used by the next
patch.

Note, since in case of kmemleak enabled each kmalloc implies yet another
allocation from the kmemleak_object cache, we add __GFP_NOACCOUNT to
gfp_kmemleak_mask.

Alternatively, we could introduce a per kmem cache flag disabling
accounting for all allocations of a particular kind, but (a) we would not
be able to bypass accounting for kmalloc then and (b) a kmem cache with
this flag set could not be merged with a kmem cache without this flag,
which would increase the number of global caches and therefore
fragmentation even if the memory cgroup controller is not used.

Despite its generic name, currently __GFP_NOACCOUNT disables accounting
only for kmem allocations while user page allocations are always charged.
To catch abusing of this flag, a warning is issued on an attempt of
passing it to mem_cgroup_try_charge.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.0.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-05-14 17:55:51 -07:00
Andrey Ryabinin
e79ed2f13f kmemleak: disable kasan instrumentation for kmemleak
kmalloc internally round up allocation size, and kmemleak uses rounded up
size as object's size.  This makes kasan to complain while kmemleak scans
memory or calculates of object's checksum.  The simplest solution here is
to disable kasan.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-13 21:21:41 -08:00
Catalin Marinas
ffe2c748e2 mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace()
The memory allocation stack trace is not always useful for debugging a
memory leak (e.g.  radix_tree_preload).  This function, when called,
updates the stack trace for an already allocated object.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
Jianpeng Ma
aae0ad7ae5 mm/kmemleak.c: use %u to print ->checksum
Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
Vladimir Davydov
bfc8c90139 mem-hotplug: implement get/put_online_mems
kmem_cache_{create,destroy,shrink} need to get a stable value of
cpu/node online mask, because they init/destroy/access per-cpu/node
kmem_cache parts, which can be allocated or destroyed on cpu/mem
hotplug.  To protect against cpu hotplug, these functions use
{get,put}_online_cpus.  However, they do nothing to synchronize with
memory hotplug - taking the slab_mutex does not eliminate the
possibility of race as described in patch 2.

What we need there is something like get_online_cpus, but for memory.
We already have lock_memory_hotplug, which serves for the purpose, but
it's a bit of a hammer right now, because it's backed by a mutex.  As a
result, it imposes some limitations to locking order, which are not
desirable, and can't be used just like get_online_cpus.  That's why in
patch 1 I substitute it with get/put_online_mems, which work exactly
like get/put_online_cpus except they block not cpu, but memory hotplug.

[ v1 can be found at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/6/68.  I NAK'ed it by
  myself, because it used an rw semaphore for get/put_online_mems,
  making them dead lock prune.  ]

This patch (of 2):

{un}lock_memory_hotplug, which is used to synchronize against memory
hotplug, is currently backed by a mutex, which makes it a bit of a
hammer - threads that only want to get a stable value of online nodes
mask won't be able to proceed concurrently.  Also, it imposes some
strong locking ordering rules on it, which narrows down the set of its
usage scenarios.

This patch introduces get/put_online_mems, which are the same as
get/put_online_cpus, but for memory hotplug, i.e.  executing a code
inside a get/put_online_mems section will guarantee a stable value of
online nodes, present pages, etc.

lock_memory_hotplug()/unlock_memory_hotplug() are removed altogether.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:53:59 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
3551a9280b mm: postpone the disabling of kmemleak early logging
Commit 8910ae896c ("kmemleak: change some global variables to int"),
in addition to the atomic -> int conversion, moved the disabling of
kmemleak_early_log to the beginning of the kmemleak_init() function,
before the full kmemleak tracing is actually enabled.  In this small
window, kmem_cache_create() is called by kmemleak which triggers
additional memory allocation that are not traced.  This patch restores
the original logic with kmemleak_early_log disabling when kmemleak is
fully functional.

Fixes: 8910ae896c (kmemleak: change some global variables to int)

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-05-11 17:55:48 +09:00
Li Zefan
8910ae896c kmemleak: change some global variables to int
They don't have to be atomic_t, because they are simple boolean toggles.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:20:50 -07:00
Li Zefan
5f3bf19aeb kmemleak: remove redundant code
Remove kmemleak_padding() and kmemleak_release().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:20:50 -07:00
Li Zefan
c89da70c73 kmemleak: allow freeing internal objects after kmemleak was disabled
Currently if kmemleak is disabled, the kmemleak objects can never be
freed, no matter if it's disabled by a user or due to fatal errors.

Those objects can be a big waste of memory.

    OBJS ACTIVE  USE OBJ SIZE  SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME
  1200264 1197433  99%    0.30K  46164       26    369312K kmemleak_object

With this patch, after kmemleak was disabled you can reclaim memory
with:

	# echo clear > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

Also inform users about this with a printk.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:20:50 -07:00
Li Zefan
dc9b3f4249 kmemleak: free internal objects only if there're no leaks to be reported
Currently if you stop kmemleak thread before disabling kmemleak,
kmemleak objects will be freed and so you won't be able to check
previously reported leaks.

With this patch, kmemleak objects won't be freed if there're leaks that
can be reported.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:20:50 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
7f88f88f83 mm: kmemleak: avoid false negatives on vmalloc'ed objects
Commit 248ac0e194 ("mm/vmalloc: remove guard page from between vmap
blocks") had the side effect of making vmap_area.va_end member point to
the next vmap_area.va_start.  This was creating an artificial reference
to vmalloc'ed objects and kmemleak was rarely reporting vmalloc() leaks.

This patch marks the vmap_area containing pointers explicitly and
reduces the min ref_count to 2 as vm_struct still contains a reference
to the vmalloc'ed object.  The kmemleak add_scan_area() function has
been improved to allow a SIZE_MAX argument covering the rest of the
object (for simpler calling sites).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-13 12:09:07 +09:00
Jingoo Han
3dbb95f789 mm: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()
The use of strict_strtoul() is not preferred, because strict_strtoul() is
obsolete.  Thus, kstrtoul() should be used.

Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11 15:57:11 -07:00
Sasha Levin
b67bfe0d42 hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived

        list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)

The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:

        hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)

Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.

Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:

 - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
 - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
 - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
 was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
 - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
 properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.

The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:

@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;

type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@

-T b;
    <+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
    ...+>

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
Cody P Schafer
108bcc96ef mm: add & use zone_end_pfn() and zone_spans_pfn()
Add 2 helpers (zone_end_pfn() and zone_spans_pfn()) to reduce code
duplication.

This also switches to using them in compaction (where an additional
variable needed to be renamed), page_alloc, vmstat, memory_hotplug, and
kmemleak.

Note that in compaction.c I avoid calling zone_end_pfn() repeatedly
because I expect at some point the sycronization issues with start_pfn &
spanned_pages will need fixing, either by actually using the seqlock or
clever memory barrier usage.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 17:50:20 -08:00
Abhijit Pawar
dc053733ea mm/kmemleak.c: remove obsolete simple_strtoul
Replace the obsolete simple_strtoul() with kstrtoul().

Signed-off-by: Abhijit Pawar <abhi.c.pawar@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
Michel Lespinasse
85d3a316c7 kmemleak: use rbtree instead of prio tree
kmemleak uses a tree where each node represents an allocated memory object
in order to quickly find out what object a given address is part of.
However, the objects don't overlap, so rbtrees are a better choice than
prio tree for this use.  They are both faster and have lower memory
overhead.

Tested by booting a kernel with kmemleak enabled, loading the
kmemleak_test module, and looking for the expected messages.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-09 16:22:39 +09:00
Michael Wang
58fac09566 kmemleak: Replace list_for_each_continue_rcu with new interface
This patch replaces list_for_each_continue_rcu() with
list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu() to save a few lines
of code and allow removing list_for_each_continue_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-23 07:42:52 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
b370d29ea7 kmemleak: Disable early logging when kmemleak is off by default
Commit b6693005 (kmemleak: When the early log buffer is exceeded, report
the actual number) deferred the disabling of the early logging to
kmemleak_init(). However, when CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, the
early logging was no longer disabled causing __init kmemleak functions
to be called even after the kernel freed the init memory. This patch
disables the early logging during kmemleak_init() if kmemleak is left
disabled.

Reported-by: Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
Tested-by: Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
Tested-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2012-01-20 16:57:05 +00:00
Tiejun Chen
b469d4329c kmemleak: Only scan non-zero-size areas
Kmemleak should only track valid scan areas with a non-zero size.
Otherwise, such area may reside just at the end of an object and
kmemleak would report "Adding scan area to unknown object".

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2012-01-20 16:54:35 +00:00
Laura Abbott
029aeff5db kmemleak: Add support for memory hotplug
Ensure that memory hotplug can co-exist with kmemleak
by taking the hotplug lock before scanning the memory
banks.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2011-12-02 16:12:42 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
f528f0b8e5 kmemleak: Handle percpu memory allocation
This patch adds kmemleak callbacks from the percpu allocator, reducing a
number of false positives caused by kmemleak not scanning such memory
blocks. The percpu chunks are never reported as leaks because of current
kmemleak limitations with the __percpu pointer not pointing directly to
the actual chunks.

Reported-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li.lee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2011-12-02 16:12:42 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
74341703ed kmemleak: Report previously found leaks even after an error
If an error fatal to kmemleak (like memory allocation failure) happens,
kmemleak disables itself but it also removes the access to any
previously found memory leaks. This patch allows read-only access to the
kmemleak debugfs interface but disables any other action.

Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2011-12-02 16:12:42 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
b66930052a kmemleak: When the early log buffer is exceeded, report the actual number
Just telling that the early log buffer has been exceeded doesn't mean
much. This patch moves the error printing to the kmemleak_init()
function and displays the actual calls to the kmemleak API during early
logging.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2011-12-02 16:12:42 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
5f79020cb9 kmemleak: Show where early_log issues come from
Based on initial patch by Steven Rostedt.

Early kmemleak warnings did not show where the actual kmemleak API had
been called from but rather just a backtrace to the kmemleak_init()
function. By having all early kmemleak logs record the stack_trace, we
can have kmemleak_init() write exactly where the problem occurred. This
patch adds the setting of the kmemleak_warning variable every time a
kmemleak warning is issued. The kmemleak_init() function checks this
variable during early log replaying and prints the log trace if there
was any warning.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-12-02 16:12:41 +00:00
Paul Gortmaker
b95f1b31b7 mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
The files changed within are only using the EXPORT_SYMBOL
macro variants.  They are not using core modular infrastructure
and hence don't need module.h but only the export.h header.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
Arun Sharma
60063497a9 atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
52c3ce4ec5 kmemleak: Do not return a pointer to an object that kmemleak did not get
The kmemleak_seq_next() function tries to get an object (and increment
its use count) before returning it. If it could not get the last object
during list traversal (because it may have been freed), the function
should return NULL rather than a pointer to such object that it did not
get.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2011-05-19 17:35:28 +01:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Catalin Marinas
6ae4bd1f0b kmemleak: Allow kmemleak metadata allocations to fail
This patch adds __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOMEMALLOC flags to the kmemleak
metadata allocations so that it has a smaller effect on the users of the
kernel slab allocator. Since kmemleak allocations can now fail more
often, this patch also reduces the verbosity by passing __GFP_NOWARN and
not dumping the stack trace when a kmemleak allocation fails.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-27 18:32:06 +00:00
Holger Hans Peter Freyther
145b64b958 kmemleak: Fix typo in the comment
Fix typo in comment.

Signed-off-by: Holger Hans Peter Freyther <zecke@selfish.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2010-08-08 21:57:23 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
a2b6bf63cb kmemleak: Add DocBook style comments to kmemleak.c
The description and parameters of the kmemleak API weren't obvious. This
patch adds comments clarifying the API usage.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-07-19 11:54:17 +01:00
Jason Baron
ab0155a22a kmemleak: Introduce a default off mode for kmemleak
Introduce a new DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF config parameter that allows
kmemleak to be disabled by default, but enabled on the command line
via: kmemleak=on. Although a reboot is required to turn it on, its still
useful to not require a re-compile.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-07-19 11:54:17 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
a7686a45c0 kmemleak: Show more information for objects found by alias
There may be situations when an object is freed using a pointer inside
the memory block. Kmemleak should show more information to help with
debugging.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-07-19 11:54:16 +01:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
dcc7cd0112 Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
  kmemleak: Reduce the false positives by checking for modified objects
  kmemleak: Show the age of an unreferenced object
  kmemleak: Release the object lock before calling put_object()
  kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules
  kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototype
  kmemleak: Do not use off-slab management with SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE
2009-12-17 16:00:19 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-Knig
21ae2956ce tree-wide: fix typos "aquire" -> "acquire", "cumsumed" -> "consumed"
This patch was generated by

	git grep -E -i -l '[Aa]quire' | xargs -r perl -p -i -e 's/([Aa])quire/$1cquire/'

and the cumsumed was found by checking the diff for aquire.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-Knig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-11-09 09:40:57 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
04609ccc40 kmemleak: Reduce the false positives by checking for modified objects
If an object was modified since it was previously suspected as leak, do
not report it. The modification check is done by calculating the
checksum (CRC32) of such object.

Several false positives are caused by objects being removed from linked
lists (e.g. allocation pools) and temporarily breaking the reference
chain since kmemleak runs concurrently with such list mutation
primitives.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-10-28 17:07:54 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
fefdd336b2 kmemleak: Show the age of an unreferenced object
The jiffies shown for unreferenced objects isn't always meaningful to
people debugging kernel memory leaks. This patch adds the age as well to
the displayed information.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-10-28 17:07:54 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
0587da40be kmemleak: Release the object lock before calling put_object()
The put_object() function may free the object if the use_count
dropped to 0. There shouldn't be further accesses to such object unless
it is known that the use_count is non-zero.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-10-28 17:07:54 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
c017b4be3e kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototype
This function was taking non-necessary arguments which can be determined
by kmemleak. The patch also modifies the calling sites.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-10-28 15:11:00 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
0d5d1aadc8 kmemleak: Check for NULL pointer returned by create_object()
This patch adds NULL pointer checking in the early_alloc() function.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-09 13:28:47 -07:00
Tetsuo Handa
c1bcd6b327 kmemleak: Use GFP_ATOMIC for early_alloc().
We can't use GFP_KERNEL inside rcu_read_lock().

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-09 13:28:47 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
addd72c1a9 kmemleak: Improve the "Early log buffer exceeded" error message
Based on a suggestion from Jaswinder, clarify what the user would need
to do to avoid this error message from kmemleak.

Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-11 10:42:09 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
7eb0d5e5be kmemleak: fix sparse warning for static declarations
This fixes these sparse warnings:

mm/kmemleak.c:1179:6: warning: symbol 'start_scan_thread' was not declared. Should it be static?
mm/kmemleak.c:1194:6: warning: symbol 'stop_scan_thread' was not declared. Should it be static?

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 17:34:07 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
0580a1819c kmemleak: fix sparse warning over overshadowed flags
A secondary irq_save is not required as a locking before it was
already disabling irqs.

This fixes this sparse warning:
mm/kmemleak.c:512:31: warning: symbol 'flags' shadows an earlier one
mm/kmemleak.c:448:23: originally declared here

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 17:34:06 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
a1084c8779 kmemleak: move common painting code together
When painting grey or black we do the same thing, bring
this together into a helper and identify coloring grey or
black explicitly with defines. This makes this a little
easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 17:22:20 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
30b3710105 kmemleak: add clear command support
In an ideal world your kmemleak output will be small, when its
not (usually during initial bootup) you can use the clear command
to ingore previously reported and unreferenced kmemleak objects. We
do this by painting all currently reported unreferenced objects grey.
We paint them grey instead of black to allow future scans on the same
objects as such objects could still potentially reference newly
allocated objects in the future.

To test a critical section on demand with a clean
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak you can do:

echo clear > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
        test your kernel or modules
echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

Then as usual to get your report with:

cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 16:36:08 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
4a558dd6f9 kmemleak: use bool for true/false questions
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 16:34:50 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
179a8100e1 kmemleak: Do no create the clean-up thread during kmemleak_disable()
The kmemleak_disable() function could be called from various contexts
including IRQ. It creates a clean-up thread but the kthread_create()
function has restrictions on which contexts it can be called from,
mainly because of the kthread_create_lock. The patch changes the
kmemleak clean-up thread to a workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-09-08 16:31:15 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
43ed5d6ee0 kmemleak: Scan all thread stacks
This patch changes the for_each_process() loop with the
do_each_thread()/while_each_thread() pair.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-04 16:05:55 +01:00
Pekka Enberg
8e019366ba kmemleak: Don't scan uninitialized memory when kmemcheck is enabled
Ingo Molnar reported the following kmemcheck warning when running both
kmemleak and kmemcheck enabled:

  PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa7
  WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory
  (f6f6e1a4)
  d873f9f600000000c42ae4c1005c87f70000000070665f666978656400000000
   i i i i u u u u i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u
           ^

  Pid: 3091, comm: kmemleak Not tainted (2.6.31-rc7-tip #1303) P4DC6
  EIP: 0060:[<c110301f>] EFLAGS: 00010006 CPU: 0
  EIP is at scan_block+0x3f/0xe0
  EAX: f40bd700 EBX: f40bd780 ECX: f16b46c0 EDX: 00000001
  ESI: f6f6e1a4 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f10f3f4c ESP: c2605fcc
   DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
  CR0: 8005003b CR2: e89a4844 CR3: 30ff1000 CR4: 000006f0
  DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
  DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400
   [<c110313c>] scan_object+0x7c/0xf0
   [<c1103389>] kmemleak_scan+0x1d9/0x400
   [<c1103a3c>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x4c/0xb0
   [<c10819d4>] kthread+0x74/0x80
   [<c10257db>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x3c
   [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
  kmemleak: 515 new suspected memory leaks (see
  /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
  kmemleak: 42 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)

The problem here is that kmemleak will scan partially initialized
objects that makes kmemcheck complain. Fix that up by skipping
uninitialized memory regions when kmemcheck is enabled.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-04 16:05:55 +01:00
Sergey Senozhatsky
0494e08281 kmemleak: Printing of the objects hex dump
Introducing printing of the objects hex dump to the seq file.
The number of lines to be printed is limited to HEX_MAX_LINES
to prevent seq file spamming. The actual number of printed
bytes is less than or equal to (HEX_MAX_LINES * HEX_ROW_SIZE).

(slight adjustments by Catalin Marinas)

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-08-27 14:29:18 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
fd6789675e kmemleak: Save the stack trace for early allocations
Before slab is initialised, kmemleak save the allocations in an early
log buffer. They are later recorded as normal memory allocations. This
patch adds the stack trace saving to the early log buffer, otherwise the
information shown for such objects only refers to the kmemleak_init()
function.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-08-27 14:29:17 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
a6186d89c9 kmemleak: Mark the early log buffer as __initdata
This buffer isn't needed after kmemleak was initialised so it can be
freed together with the .init.data section. This patch also marks
functions conditionally accessing the early log variables with __ref.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-08-27 14:29:16 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
189d84ed54 kmemleak: Dump object information on request
By writing dump=<addr> to the kmemleak file, kmemleak will look up an
object with that address and dump the information it has about it to
syslog. This is useful in debugging memory leaks.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-08-27 14:29:15 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
af98603dad kmemleak: Allow rescheduling during an object scanning
If the object size is bigger than a predefined value (4K in this case),
release the object lock during scanning and call cond_resched().
Re-acquire the lock after rescheduling and test whether the object is
still valid.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-08-27 14:29:12 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
f5886c7f96 kmemleak: Protect the seq start/next/stop sequence by rcu_read_lock()
Objects passed to kmemleak_seq_next() have an incremented reference
count (hence not freed) but they may point via object_list.next to
other freed objects. To avoid this, the whole start/next/stop sequence
must be protected by rcu_read_lock().

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 12:34:58 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
53238a60dd kmemleak: Allow partial freeing of memory blocks
Functions like free_bootmem() are allowed to free only part of a memory
block. This patch adds support for this via the kmemleak_free_part()
callback which removes the original object and creates one or two
additional objects as a result of the memory block split.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-08 14:25:14 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
2587362eaf kmemleak: Scan objects allocated during a scanning episode
Many of the false positives in kmemleak happen on busy systems where
objects are allocated during a kmemleak scanning episode. These objects
aren't scanned by default until the next memory scan. When such object
is added, for example, at the head of a list, it is possible that all
the other objects in the list become unreferenced until the next scan.

This patch adds checking for newly allocated objects at the end of the
scan and repeats the scanning on these objects. If Linux allocates
new objects at a higher rate than their scanning, it stops after a
predefined number of passes.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-08 14:25:13 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
b87324d082 kmemleak: Do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_open()
Initially, the scan_mutex was acquired in kmemleak_open() and released
in kmemleak_release() (corresponding to /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
operations). This was causing some lockdep reports when the file was
closed from a different task than the one opening it. This patch moves
the scan_mutex acquiring in kmemleak_write() or kmemleak_seq_start()
with releasing in kmemleak_seq_stop().

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-08 14:25:13 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
288c857d66 kmemleak: Remove the reported leaks number limitation
Since the leaks are no longer printed to the syslog, there is no point
in keeping this limitation. All the suspected leaks are shown on
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-08 14:25:12 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
4b8a96744c kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning thread
Following recent fix to no longer reschedule in the scan_block()
function, the system may become unresponsive with !PREEMPT. This patch
re-adds the cond_resched() call to scan_block() but conditioned by the
allow_resched parameter.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-07 10:32:56 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
bf2a76b317 kmemleak: Renice the scanning thread to +10
This is a long-running thread but not high-priority. So it makes sense
to renice it to +10.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-07 10:32:55 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
57d81f6f39 kmemleak: Fix scheduling-while-atomic bug
One of the kmemleak changes caused the following
scheduling-while-holding-the-tasklist-lock regression on x86:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/kmemleak.c:795
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1737, name: kmemleak
2 locks held by kmemleak/1737:
 #0:  (scan_mutex){......}, at: [<c10c4376>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x45/0x86
 #1:  (tasklist_lock){......}, at: [<c10c3bb4>] kmemleak_scan+0x1a9/0x39c
Pid: 1737, comm: kmemleak Not tainted 2.6.31-rc1-tip #59266
Call Trace:
 [<c105ac0f>] ? __debug_show_held_locks+0x1e/0x20
 [<c102e490>] __might_sleep+0x10a/0x111
 [<c10c38d5>] scan_yield+0x17/0x3b
 [<c10c3970>] scan_block+0x39/0xd4
 [<c10c3bc6>] kmemleak_scan+0x1bb/0x39c
 [<c10c4331>] ? kmemleak_scan_thread+0x0/0x86
 [<c10c437b>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x4a/0x86
 [<c104d73e>] kthread+0x6e/0x73
 [<c104d6d0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x73
 [<c100959f>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
kmemleak: 834 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)

The bit causing it is highly dubious:

static void scan_yield(void)
{
        might_sleep();

        if (time_is_before_eq_jiffies(next_scan_yield)) {
                schedule();
                next_scan_yield = jiffies + jiffies_scan_yield;
        }
}

It called deep inside the codepath and in a conditional way,
and that is what crapped up when one of the new scan_block()
uses grew a tasklist_lock dependency.

This minimal patch removes that yielding stuff and adds the
proper cond_resched().

The background scanning thread could probably also be reniced
to +10.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-01 10:26:23 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
b6e687221e kmemleak: Do not warn if an unknown object is freed
vmap'ed memory blocks are not tracked by kmemleak (yet) but they may be
released with vfree() which is tracked. The corresponding kmemleak
warning is only enabled in debug mode. Future patch will add support for
ioremap and vmap.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-29 17:14:14 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
17bb9e0d90 kmemleak: Do not report new leaked objects if the scanning was stopped
If the scanning was stopped with a signal, it is possible that some
objects are left with a white colour (potential leaks) and reported. Add
a check to avoid reporting such objects.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-29 17:14:13 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
acf4968ec9 kmemleak: Slightly change the policy on newly allocated objects
Newly allocated objects are more likely to be reported as false
positives. Kmemleak ignores the reporting of objects younger than 5
seconds. However, this age was calculated after the memory scanning
completed which usually takes longer than 5 seconds. This patch
make the minimum object age calculation in relation to the start of the
memory scanning.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26 17:38:29 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
4698c1f2bb kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak file
Since there is a kernel thread for automatically scanning the memory, it
makes sense for the debug/kmemleak file to only show its findings. This
patch also adds support for "echo scan > debug/kmemleak" to trigger an
intermediate memory scan and eliminates the kmemleak_mutex (scan_mutex
covers all the cases now).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26 17:38:27 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
bab4a34afc kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning thread
Because of false positives, the memory scanning thread may print too
much information. This patch changes the scanning thread to only print
the number of newly suspected leaks. Further information can be read
from the /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26 17:38:26 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
e0a2a1601b kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default
This is to reduce the number of false positives reported.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26 17:38:25 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
a9d9058aba kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.
(feature suggested by Sergey Senozhatsky)

Kmemleak needs to track all the memory allocations but some of these
happen before kmemleak is initialised. These are stored in an internal
buffer which may be exceeded in some kernel configurations. This patch
adds a configuration option with a default value of 400 and also removes
the stack dump when the early log buffer is exceeded.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
2009-06-25 10:16:13 +01:00
Joe Perches
ae281064be kmemleak: use pr_fmt
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-23 14:40:26 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
2030117d27 kmemleak: Fix some typos in comments
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-17 18:29:04 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
000814f44e kmemleak: Rename kmemleak_panic to kmemleak_stop
This is to avoid the confusion created by the "panic" word.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-17 18:29:03 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
216c04b0d8 kmemleak: Only use GFP_KERNEL|GFP_ATOMIC for the internal allocations
Kmemleak allocates memory for pointer tracking and it tries to avoid
using GFP_ATOMIC if the caller doesn't require it. However other gfp
flags may be passed by the caller which aren't required by kmemleak.
This patch filters the gfp flags so that only GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC
are used.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-17 18:29:02 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
3c7b4e6b8b kmemleak: Add the base support
This patch adds the base support for the kernel memory leak
detector. It traces the memory allocation/freeing in a way similar to
the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the difference being that
the unreferenced objects are not freed but only shown in
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this feature introduces an
overhead to memory allocations.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-06-11 17:03:28 +01:00