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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2011-09-26 17:12:53 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2011-12-02 16:12:42 +0000
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kmemleak: Handle percpu memory allocation
This patch adds kmemleak callbacks from the percpu allocator, reducing a number of false positives caused by kmemleak not scanning such memory blocks. The percpu chunks are never reported as leaks because of current kmemleak limitations with the __percpu pointer not pointing directly to the actual chunks. Reported-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li.lee@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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@@ -127,7 +127,10 @@ See the include/linux/kmemleak.h header for the functions prototype.
kmemleak_init - initialize kmemleak
kmemleak_alloc - notify of a memory block allocation
+kmemleak_alloc_percpu - notify of a percpu memory block allocation
kmemleak_free - notify of a memory block freeing
+kmemleak_free_part - notify of a partial memory block freeing
+kmemleak_free_percpu - notify of a percpu memory block freeing
kmemleak_not_leak - mark an object as not a leak
kmemleak_ignore - do not scan or report an object as leak
kmemleak_scan_area - add scan areas inside a memory block