Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm

* 'kmemleak' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm:
  kmemleak: Fix typo in the comment
  lib/scatterlist: Hook sg_kmalloc into kmemleak (v2)
  kmemleak: Add DocBook style comments to kmemleak.c
  kmemleak: Introduce a default off mode for kmemleak
  kmemleak: Show more information for objects found by alias
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Linus Torvalds 2010-08-10 13:58:11 -07:00
commit 4c619407b0
3 changed files with 101 additions and 29 deletions

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@ -410,6 +410,13 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
If unsure, say N.
config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
bool "Default kmemleak to off"
depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
help
Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
on the command line via kmemleak=on.
config DEBUG_PREEMPT
bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT

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@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/scatterlist.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
/**
* sg_next - return the next scatterlist entry in a list
@ -115,17 +116,29 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_init_one);
*/
static struct scatterlist *sg_kmalloc(unsigned int nents, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
if (nents == SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC)
return (struct scatterlist *) __get_free_page(gfp_mask);
else
if (nents == SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC) {
/*
* Kmemleak doesn't track page allocations as they are not
* commonly used (in a raw form) for kernel data structures.
* As we chain together a list of pages and then a normal
* kmalloc (tracked by kmemleak), in order to for that last
* allocation not to become decoupled (and thus a
* false-positive) we need to inform kmemleak of all the
* intermediate allocations.
*/
void *ptr = (void *) __get_free_page(gfp_mask);
kmemleak_alloc(ptr, PAGE_SIZE, 1, gfp_mask);
return ptr;
} else
return kmalloc(nents * sizeof(struct scatterlist), gfp_mask);
}
static void sg_kfree(struct scatterlist *sg, unsigned int nents)
{
if (nents == SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC)
if (nents == SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC) {
kmemleak_free(sg);
free_page((unsigned long) sg);
else
} else
kfree(sg);
}