linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/8] kmemleak: Do not report alloc

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Date:	Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:12:29 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: [PATCH 5/8] kmemleak: Do not report alloc_bootmem blocks as leaks

This patch sets the min_count for alloc_bootmem objects to 0 so that
they are never reported as leaks. This is because many of these blocks
are only referred via the physical address which is not looked up by
kmemleak.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
---
 mm/bootmem.c |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
index 701740c..555d5d2 100644
--- a/mm/bootmem.c
+++ b/mm/bootmem.c
@@ -521,7 +521,11 @@ find_block:
 		region = phys_to_virt(PFN_PHYS(bdata->node_min_pfn) +
 				start_off);
 		memset(region, 0, size);
-		kmemleak_alloc(region, size, 1, 0);
+		/*
+		 * The min_count is set to 0 so that bootmem allocated blocks
+		 * are never reported as leaks.
+		 */
+		kmemleak_alloc(region, size, 0, 0);
 		return region;
 	}
 

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