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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2011-11-02 13:38:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-02 16:06:59 -0700
commitff7ee93f47151e23601856e7eb5510babf956571 (patch)
tree2a62777ebdec1383d3dd6098cfe8a325c99f2dde /mm
parent77ceab8ea590d7dc6c8f055ce43dfebd74428107 (diff)
cgroup/kmemleak: Annotate alloc_page() for cgroup allocations
When the cgroup base was allocated with kmalloc, it was necessary to annotate the variable with kmemleak_not_leak(). But because it has recently been changed to be allocated with alloc_page() (which skips kmemleak checks) causes a warning on boot up. I was triggering this output: allocated 8388608 bytes of page_cgroup please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups kmemleak: Trying to color unknown object at 0xf5840000 as Grey Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0-test #12 Call Trace: [<c17e34e6>] ? printk+0x1d/0x1f^M [<c10e2941>] paint_ptr+0x4f/0x78 [<c178ab57>] kmemleak_not_leak+0x58/0x7d [<c108ae9f>] ? __rcu_read_unlock+0x9/0x7d [<c1cdb462>] kmemleak_init+0x19d/0x1e9 [<c1cbf771>] start_kernel+0x346/0x3ec [<c1cbf1b4>] ? loglevel+0x18/0x18 [<c1cbf0aa>] i386_start_kernel+0xaa/0xb0 After a bit of debugging I tracked the object 0xf840000 (and others) down to the cgroup code. The change from allocating base with kmalloc to alloc_page() has the base not calling kmemleak_alloc() which adds the pointer to the object_tree_root, but kmemleak_not_leak() adds it to the crt_early_log[] table. On kmemleak_init(), the entry is found in the early_log[] but not the object_tree_root, and this error message is displayed. If alloc_page() fails then it defaults back to vmalloc() which still uses the kmemleak_alloc() which makes us still need the kmemleak_not_leak() call. The solution is to call the kmemleak_alloc() directly if the alloc_page() succeeds. Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_cgroup.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_cgroup.c b/mm/page_cgroup.c
index 6bdc67dbbc2..3749ae15a8c 100644
--- a/mm/page_cgroup.c
+++ b/mm/page_cgroup.c
@@ -133,10 +133,13 @@ struct page *lookup_cgroup_page(struct page_cgroup *pc)
static void *__meminit alloc_page_cgroup(size_t size, int nid)
{
void *addr = NULL;
+ gfp_t flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN;
- addr = alloc_pages_exact_nid(nid, size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
- if (addr)
+ addr = alloc_pages_exact_nid(nid, size, flags);
+ if (addr) {
+ kmemleak_alloc(addr, size, 1, flags);
return addr;
+ }
if (node_state(nid, N_HIGH_MEMORY))
addr = vmalloc_node(size, nid);