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Message-ID: <20090724161213.5752.41867.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:12:13 +0100
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] kmemleak: Allow rescheduling during an object scanning
If the object size is bigger than a predefined value (4K in this case),
release the object lock during scanning and call cond_resched().
Re-acquire the lock after rescheduling and test whether the object is
still valid.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
---
mm/kmemleak.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 7e8e4b0..c665626 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@
#define SECS_FIRST_SCAN 60 /* delay before the first scan */
#define SECS_SCAN_WAIT 600 /* subsequent auto scanning delay */
#define GRAY_LIST_PASSES 25 /* maximum number of gray list scans */
+#define MAX_SCAN_SIZE 4096 /* maximum size of a scanned block */
#define BYTES_PER_POINTER sizeof(void *)
@@ -950,10 +951,20 @@ static void scan_object(struct kmemleak_object *object)
if (!(object->flags & OBJECT_ALLOCATED))
/* already freed object */
goto out;
- if (hlist_empty(&object->area_list))
- scan_block((void *)object->pointer,
- (void *)(object->pointer + object->size), object, 0);
- else
+ if (hlist_empty(&object->area_list)) {
+ void *start = (void *)object->pointer;
+ void *end = (void *)(object->pointer + object->size);
+
+ while (start < end && (object->flags & OBJECT_ALLOCATED)) {
+ scan_block(start, min(start + MAX_SCAN_SIZE, end),
+ object, 0);
+ start += MAX_SCAN_SIZE;
+
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&object->lock, flags);
+ cond_resched();
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&object->lock, flags);
+ }
+ } else
hlist_for_each_entry(area, elem, &object->area_list, node)
scan_block((void *)(object->pointer + area->offset),
(void *)(object->pointer + area->offset
--
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