linux-kernel - Re: kmemleak: Early log buffer exceeded

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Date:	Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:35:05 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...l.by>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: kmemleak: Early log buffer exceeded

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:26 +0100, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> I can see on my both machines
> 
> [    0.000135] kmemleak: Early log buffer exceeded
[...]
> mm/kmemleak.c
> static struct early_log early_log[200];
> 
> static void log_early(int op_type, const void *ptr, size_t size,
>                       int min_count, unsigned long offset, size_t length)
> {
> ...
>         if (crt_early_log >= ARRAY_SIZE(early_log)) {
>                 print  Early log buffer exceeded;
>                 call dump_stack, etc.
> 
> So, my questions are:
> 1. Is 200 really enough? Why 200 not 512, 1024 (for example)?

It seems that in your case it isn't. It is fine on the machines I tested
it on but choosing this figure wasn't too scientific.

I initially had it bigger and marked with the __init attribute to free
it after initialisation but this was causing (harmless) section mismatch
warnings.

What kind of hardware do you have?

> 2. When (crt_early_log >= ARRAY_SIZE(early_log)) == 1 we just can see stack.
> Since we have "full" early_log maybe it'll be helpfull to see it?

I recall allocating this dynamically didn't work properly but I'll give
it another try. Otherwise, I can make it configurable and print a better
message (probably without the stack dump).

-- 
Catalin

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