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Date:	Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:37:29 GMT
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	penberg@...helsinki.fi, eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: [tip:tracing/kmemtrace-v2] kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objects

Commit-ID:  2121db74ba0fd2259f0e2265511684fadda9ac49
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/2121db74ba0fd2259f0e2265511684fadda9ac49
Author:     Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
AuthorDate: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:05:57 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:23:10 +0200

kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objects

Impact: also output kfree(NULL) entries

This patch moves the trace_kfree() calls before the ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR
check so that we can trace call-sites that call kfree() with NULL many
times which might be an indication of a bug.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>
LKML-Reference: <1237971957.30175.18.camel@...berg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>


---
 mm/slab.c |    4 ++--
 mm/slob.c |    4 ++--
 mm/slub.c |    4 ++--
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index fa00fd6..b584002 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3773,6 +3773,8 @@ void kfree(const void *objp)
 	struct kmem_cache *c;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	trace_kfree(_RET_IP_, objp);
+
 	if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(objp)))
 		return;
 	local_irq_save(flags);
@@ -3782,8 +3784,6 @@ void kfree(const void *objp)
 	debug_check_no_obj_freed(objp, obj_size(c));
 	__cache_free(c, (void *)objp);
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
-
-	trace_kfree(_RET_IP_, objp);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);
 
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index 0000358..a2d4ab3 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -514,6 +514,8 @@ void kfree(const void *block)
 {
 	struct slob_page *sp;
 
+	trace_kfree(_RET_IP_, block);
+
 	if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block)))
 		return;
 
@@ -524,8 +526,6 @@ void kfree(const void *block)
 		slob_free(m, *m + align);
 	} else
 		put_page(&sp->page);
-
-	trace_kfree(_RET_IP_, block);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);
 
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index a98078b..7ab54ec 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2792,6 +2792,8 @@ void kfree(const void *x)
 	struct page *page;
 	void *object = (void *)x;
 
+	trace_kfree(_RET_IP_, x);
+
 	if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(x)))
 		return;
 
@@ -2802,8 +2804,6 @@ void kfree(const void *x)
 		return;
 	}
 	slab_free(page->slab, page, object, _RET_IP_);
-
-	trace_kfree(_RET_IP_, x);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);
 
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