linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] kmemleak: add clear command support

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Date:	Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:11:28 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	penberg@...helsinki.fi, mcgrof@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] kmemleak: add clear command support

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 17:44 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>  /*
> + * We use grey instead of black to ensure we can do future
> + * scans on the same objects. If we did not do future scans
> + * these black objects could potentially contain references to
> + * newly allocated objects in the future and we'd end up with
> + * false positives.
> + */
> +static void kmemleak_clear(void)
> +{
> +	struct kmemleak_object *object;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	stop_scan_thread();
> +
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	list_for_each_entry_rcu(object, &object_list, object_list) {
> +		spin_lock_irqsave(&object->lock, flags);
> +		if ((object->flags & OBJECT_REPORTED) &&
> +		    unreferenced_object(object))
> +			object->min_count = -1;
> +		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&object->lock, flags);
> +	}
> +	rcu_read_unlock();
> +
> +	start_scan_thread();
> +}

Do we need to stop and start the scanning thread here? When starting it,
it will trigger a memory scan automatically. I don't think we want this
as a side-effect, so I dropped these lines from your patch.

Also you set min_count to -1 here which means black object, so a
subsequent patch corrects it. I'll set min_count to 0 here in case
anyone bisects over it.

-- 
Catalin

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