linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: only kmemleak

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Date:   Mon, 25 Feb 2019 08:21:46 +0800
From:   Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@...omium.org>
To:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        linux-arm Mailing List <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: only kmemleak_ignore L2 tables

Joerg: Just to make sure, is this patch in your queue? Thanks.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 2:21 AM Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 05:43:01PM +0800, Nicolas Boichat wrote:
> > L1 tables are allocated with __get_dma_pages, and therefore already
> > ignored by kmemleak.
> >
> > Without this, the kernel would print this error message on boot,
> > when the first L1 table is allocated:
> >
> > [    2.810533] kmemleak: Trying to color unknown object at 0xffffffd652388000 as Black
> > [    2.818190] CPU: 5 PID: 39 Comm: kworker/5:0 Tainted: G S                4.19.16 #8
> > [    2.831227] Workqueue: events deferred_probe_work_func
> > [    2.836353] Call trace:
> > ...
> > [    2.852532]  paint_ptr+0xa0/0xa8
> > [    2.855750]  kmemleak_ignore+0x38/0x6c
> > [    2.859490]  __arm_v7s_alloc_table+0x168/0x1f4
> > [    2.863922]  arm_v7s_alloc_pgtable+0x114/0x17c
> > [    2.868354]  alloc_io_pgtable_ops+0x3c/0x78
> > ...
> >
> > Fixes: e5fc9753b1a8314 ("iommu/io-pgtable: Add ARMv7 short descriptor support")
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@...omium.org>
> > ---
> >
> > I only tested this on top of my other series
> > (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10720495/), but I think the same fix
> > applies. I'm still a bit confused as to why this only shows up now, as IIUC,
> > the kmemleak_ignore call was always wrong with L1 tables.
>
> Yes, I managed to reproduce this on top of -rc4 (see below). I suspect you
> /are/ the intersection of people using v7s w/ kmemleak, so this has just
> lingered and never been hit until now.
>
> For the patch (assuming this is going via Joerg):
>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
>
> Will
>
> --->8
>
> [    0.124473] kmemleak: Trying to color unknown object at 0xffff8000042d8000 as Black
> [    0.125312] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc4-00012-g40b114779944 #1
> [    0.126181] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> [    0.126680] Call trace:
> [    0.126950]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x140
> [    0.127346]  show_stack+0x14/0x20
> [    0.127706]  dump_stack+0x90/0xb4
> [    0.128066]  paint_ptr+0x94/0xa8
> [    0.128417]  kmemleak_ignore+0x54/0x60
> [    0.128991]  __arm_v7s_alloc_table+0x6c/0x240
> [    0.129661]  arm_v7s_alloc_pgtable+0x10c/0x188
> [    0.130359]  alloc_io_pgtable_ops+0x44/0xb0
> [    0.131006]  arm_v7s_do_selftests+0x84/0x4bc
> [    0.131663]  do_one_initcall+0x74/0x178
> [    0.132253]  kernel_init_freeable+0x188/0x220
> [    0.132923]  kernel_init+0x10/0x100
> [    0.133460]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
> [    0.142102] arm-v7s io-pgtable: self test ok