linux-kernel - Re: [ 31/54] kmemleak: Fix the kmemleak tracking of the percpu areas with !SMP

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Message-ID: <20120519214545.GA26721@arm.com>
Date:	Sat, 19 May 2012 22:45:45 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@...chmal.in-ulm.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	"torvalds@...ux-foundation.org" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Sami Liedes <sami.liedes@....fi>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ 31/54] kmemleak: Fix the kmemleak tracking of the percpu
 areas with !SMP

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 03:46:52PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 03:27:33PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> > Greg KH wrote...
> > 
> > > 3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > > From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> > > 
> > > commit 100d13c3b5b9410f604b86f5e0a34da64b8cf659 upstream.
> > 
> > > +	/* kmemleak tracks the percpu allocations separately */
> > > +	kmemleak_free(fc);
> > 
> > That one causes:
> > 
> >     mm/percpu.c: In function ‘setup_per_cpu_areas’:
> >     mm/percpu.c:1877: error: implicit declaration of function ‘kmemleak_free’
> >     make[1]: *** [mm/percpu.o] Error 1
> >     make: *** [mm] Error 2
> 
> Odd, it doesn't cause that problem here for me, what ARCH are you
> building for?  I'm on x86-64.

This patch propagated to far in the past. Support for per-cpu areas in
kmemleak was added with commit f528f0b8e5 (kmemleak: Handle percpu
memory allocation) in 3.3-rc1. That patch introduced the correct
#include for kmemleak.h.

Commit 100d13c should only be applied to stable 3.3 and not earlier.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin
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