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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kmemleak.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/kmemleak.c | 5 |
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt index 0112da3b9ab8..f655308064d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt +++ b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt @@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ Memory scanning parameters can be modified at run-time by writing to the Kmemleak can also be disabled at boot-time by passing "kmemleak=off" on the kernel command line. +Memory may be allocated or freed before kmemleak is initialised and +these actions are stored in an early log buffer. The size of this buffer +is configured via the CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE option. + Basic Algorithm --------------- diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 4c32b1a1a06e..12327b2bb785 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -359,6 +359,18 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE + int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + range 200 2000 + default 400 + help + Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid + reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or + freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is + used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log + buffer exceeded", please increase this value. + config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c index c96f2c8700aa..17096d1b59b2 100644 --- a/mm/kmemleak.c +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ struct early_log { }; /* early logging buffer and current position */ -static struct early_log early_log[200]; +static struct early_log early_log[CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE]; static int crt_early_log; static void kmemleak_disable(void); @@ -696,7 +696,8 @@ static void log_early(int op_type, const void *ptr, size_t size, struct early_log *log; if (crt_early_log >= ARRAY_SIZE(early_log)) { - kmemleak_stop("Early log buffer exceeded\n"); + pr_warning("Early log buffer exceeded\n"); + kmemleak_disable(); return; } |