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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-06-26 17:38:29 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-06-26 17:38:29 +0100
commitacf4968ec9dea49387ca8b3d36dfaa0850bdb2d5 (patch)
tree5854dfdd96744a404a6222b9fc42aa54f9295313 /mm/kmemleak.c
parent4698c1f2bbe44ce852ef1a6716973c1f5401a4c4 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/kmemleak.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/kmemleak.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index e96e0ec6a56..c37e8e50e4d 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -190,7 +190,9 @@ static unsigned long max_addr;
static unsigned long next_scan_yield;
static struct task_struct *scan_thread;
static unsigned long jiffies_scan_yield;
+/* used to avoid reporting of recently allocated objects */
static unsigned long jiffies_min_age;
+static unsigned long jiffies_last_scan;
/* delay between automatic memory scannings */
static signed long jiffies_scan_wait;
/* enables or disables the task stacks scanning */
@@ -284,7 +286,8 @@ static int color_gray(const struct kmemleak_object *object)
static int unreferenced_object(struct kmemleak_object *object)
{
return (object->flags & OBJECT_ALLOCATED) && color_white(object) &&
- time_is_before_eq_jiffies(object->jiffies + jiffies_min_age);
+ time_before_eq(object->jiffies + jiffies_min_age,
+ jiffies_last_scan);
}
/*
@@ -927,6 +930,8 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
int i;
int new_leaks = 0;
+ jiffies_last_scan = jiffies;
+
/* prepare the kmemleak_object's */
rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(object, &object_list, object_list) {