From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 11/14] kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:13:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081219181357.7778.9552.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081219181255.7778.52219.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but
they are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them. For more
information on false positives, see Documentation/kmemleak.txt.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
---
drivers/char/vt.c | 7 +++++++
include/linux/percpu.h | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 008176e..3cdaf99 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@
#include <linux/io.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#define MAX_NR_CON_DRIVER 16
@@ -2882,6 +2883,12 @@ static int __init con_init(void)
*/
for (currcons = 0; currcons < MIN_NR_CONSOLES; currcons++) {
vc_cons[currcons].d = vc = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct vc_data));
+ /*
+ * Kmemleak does not track the memory allocated via
+ * alloc_bootmem() but this block contains pointers to
+ * other blocks allocated via kmalloc.
+ */
+ kmemleak_alloc(vc, sizeof(struct vc_data), 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
INIT_WORK(&vc_cons[currcons].SAK_work, vc_SAK);
visual_init(vc, currcons, 1);
vc->vc_screenbuf = (unsigned short *)alloc_bootmem(vc->vc_screenbuf_size);
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu.h b/include/linux/percpu.h
index 9f2a375..c3b95c0 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu.h
@@ -69,7 +69,12 @@ struct percpu_data {
void *ptrs[1];
};
+/* pointer disguising messes up the kmemleak objects tracking */
+#ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
#define __percpu_disguise(pdata) (struct percpu_data *)~(unsigned long)(pdata)
+#else
+#define __percpu_disguise(pdata) (struct percpu_data *)(pdata)
+#endif
/*
* Use this to get to a cpu's version of the per-cpu object dynamically
* allocated. Non-atomic access to the current CPU's version should
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-19 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-19 18:12 [PATCH 00/14] Kernel memory leak detector Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 18:13 ` [PATCH 01/14] kmemleak: Add the base support Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 20:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-19 22:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-19 22:14 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-22 13:05 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-12-30 0:23 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-30 7:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-30 7:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-30 7:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-30 7:59 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-30 10:48 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 18:13 ` [PATCH 02/14] kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 18:30 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-12-19 18:13 ` [PATCH 03/14] kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 20:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-19 18:13 ` [PATCH 04/14] kmemleak: Add the slob " Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 18:13 ` [PATCH 05/14] kmemleak: Add the slub " Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 20:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-19 18:13 ` [PATCH 06/14] kmemleak: Add the vmalloc " Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 18:13 ` [PATCH 07/14] kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 18:13 ` [PATCH 08/14] kmemleak: Add modules support Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 18:13 ` [PATCH 09/14] x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux_*.lds.S files Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 18:13 ` [PATCH 10/14] arm: Provide _sdata and __bss_stop in the vmlinux.lds.S file Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 18:13 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2008-12-19 20:15 ` [PATCH 11/14] kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives Pekka Enberg
2008-12-22 12:04 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 18:14 ` [PATCH 12/14] kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 18:14 ` [PATCH 13/14] kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 18:14 ` [PATCH 14/14] kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry Catalin Marinas
2008-12-30 0:23 ` [PATCH 00/14] Kernel memory leak detector Andrew Morton
2008-12-30 11:43 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-01-08 22:45 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-12 9:51 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-01-12 10:21 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-12 10:33 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-01-12 11:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-01-14 12:30 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-01-14 14:01 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-01-14 14:50 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-01-15 22:09 ` Mike Snitzer
2009-01-16 9:22 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:40 Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:42 ` [PATCH 11/14] kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives Catalin Marinas
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