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Date:	Fri,  2 May 2014 14:41:07 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] lib: Update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations

Since radix_tree_preload() stack trace is not always useful for
debugging an actual radix tree memory leak, this patch updates the
kmemleak allocation stack trace in the radix_tree_node_alloc() function.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
---
 lib/radix-tree.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/radix-tree.c b/lib/radix-tree.c
index 9599aa72d7a0..5297f8e09096 100644
--- a/lib/radix-tree.c
+++ b/lib/radix-tree.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/radix-tree.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
@@ -200,6 +201,11 @@ radix_tree_node_alloc(struct radix_tree_root *root)
 			rtp->nodes[rtp->nr - 1] = NULL;
 			rtp->nr--;
 		}
+		/*
+		 * Update the allocation stack trace as this is more useful
+		 * for debugging.
+		 */
+		kmemleak_update_trace(ret);
 	}
 	if (ret == NULL)
 		ret = kmem_cache_alloc(radix_tree_node_cachep, gfp_mask);
--
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