[PATCH 4/6] mm: Update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Fri May 02 2014 - 09:43:22 EST


When mempool_alloc() returns an existing pool object, kmemleak_alloc()
is no longer called and the stack trace corresponds to the original
object allocation. This patch updates the kmemleak allocation stack
trace for such objects to make it more useful for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempool.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
index 905434f18c97..e7c4be024f1a 100644
--- a/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/mm/mempool.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@

#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/mempool.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
@@ -220,6 +221,11 @@ repeat_alloc:
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
/* paired with rmb in mempool_free(), read comment there */
smp_wmb();
+ /*
+ * Update the allocation stack trace as this is more useful
+ * for debugging.
+ */
+ kmemleak_update_trace(element);
return element;
}

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