linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2] mm: use stack_depot_early

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Message-ID: <CAGWkznFDCTXM3-6YEGyFtDOvqPZhK9+XoTvem26fz996fFnLJg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:49:01 +0800
From:   Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "zhaoyang.huang" <zhaoyang.huang@...soc.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ke.wang@...soc.com,
        Mirsad Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] mm: use stack_depot_early_init for kmemleak

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 9:40 AM Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 9:31 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:25:48 +0800 Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 8:17 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:11:52 +0800 "zhaoyang.huang" <zhaoyang.huang@...soc.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Mirsad report bellow error which caused by stack_depot_init failed in kvcalloc.
> > > > > Solve this by having stackdepot use stack_depot_early_init. Extra Kconfig also
> > > > > done by moving kmemleak stuff to mm/Kconfig.debug.
> > > >
> > > > I don't understand - what was the reason for the Kconfig change?
> > > The items related to kmemleak are moved from lib/Kconfig.debug to
> > > mm/Kconfig.debug
> >
> > Well yes, but why?
> It was suggested by Vlastimil in a previous comment. It makes more
> sense to have kmemleak's source code and Kconfig items under the same
> directory.
> >
> > Is that related to this bug fix?  If not then please let's have that
> > change in a separate patch.
> The moved items are updated for this bug fix.
sorry for my faint. I will make another patch for Kconfig changes.
> >