linux-kernel - [PATCH 07/14] kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system

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Message-ID: <20081219181335.7778.62548.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:13:35 +0000
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 07/14] kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from
	alloc_large_system_hash

The alloc_large_system_hash function is called from various places in
the kernel and it contains pointers to other allocated structures. It
therefore needs to be traced by kmemleak.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c |   11 +++++++++++
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d8ac014..c154b8d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 #include <linux/page-isolation.h>
 #include <linux/page_cgroup.h>
 #include <linux/debugobjects.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/div64.h>
@@ -4570,6 +4571,16 @@ void *__init alloc_large_system_hash(const char *tablename,
 	if (_hash_mask)
 		*_hash_mask = (1 << log2qty) - 1;
 
+	/*
+	 * If hashdist is set, the table allocation is done with __vmalloc()
+	 * which invokes the kmemleak_alloc() callback. This function may also
+	 * be called before the slab and kmemleak are initialised when
+	 * kmemleak simply buffers the request to be executed later
+	 * (GFP_ATOMIC flag ignored in this case).
+	 */
+	if (!hashdist)
+		kmemleak_alloc(table, size, 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
+
 	return table;
 }
 

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