Re: [PATCH] lockdep: increase static allocations

[Sasha Levin]

On 01/08/2014 02:51 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Fuzzing a recent kernel with a large configuration hits the static
> > allocation limits and disables lockdep.
>
> Doesn't that use a lot more memory?  I thought lockdep preallocates.
>
> Doubling may be too aggressive.

The patch adds about 4MB of memory usage, I didn't think it's too much for something
that is only enabled during debugging.

If this is an issue, can I suggest making these values configurable in the .config
and just let users pick whatever they want?


Thanks,
Sasha

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