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kmemleak: Handle percpu memory allocation

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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>
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Catalin Marinas 2011-09-26 17:12:53 +01:00
parent 74341703ed
commit f528f0b8e5
4 changed files with 94 additions and 1 deletions
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include/linux/kmemleak.h
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@ -26,8 +26,10 @@
extern void kmemleak_init(void) __ref;
extern void kmemleak_alloc(const void *ptr, size_t size, int min_count,
gfp_t gfp) __ref;
extern void kmemleak_alloc_percpu(const void __percpu *ptr, size_t size) __ref;
extern void kmemleak_free(const void *ptr) __ref;
extern void kmemleak_free_part(const void *ptr, size_t size) __ref;
extern void kmemleak_free_percpu(const void __percpu *ptr) __ref;
extern void kmemleak_padding(const void *ptr, unsigned long offset,
size_t size) __ref;
extern void kmemleak_not_leak(const void *ptr) __ref;
@ -68,6 +70,9 @@ static inline void kmemleak_alloc_recursive(const void *ptr, size_t size,
gfp_t gfp)
{
}
static inline void kmemleak_alloc_percpu(const void __percpu *ptr, size_t size)
{
}
static inline void kmemleak_free(const void *ptr)
{
}
@ -77,6 +82,9 @@ static inline void kmemleak_free_part(const void *ptr, size_t size)
static inline void kmemleak_free_recursive(const void *ptr, unsigned long flags)
{
}
static inline void kmemleak_free_percpu(const void __percpu *ptr)
{
}
static inline void kmemleak_not_leak(const void *ptr)
{
}