Re: [PATCH] lockdep: increase static allocations
From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Jan 08 2014 - 18:23:32 EST
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 03:10:55PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 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.
Wasting 4MB is an issue.
Linus' first Linux system had less total memory than that.
>
> If this is an issue, can I suggest making these values configurable in the .config
> and just let users pick whatever they want?
Better allocate it at boot time, using a boot parameter or somesuch.
-Andi
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