Re: 5.4-rc1 boot regression with kmemleak enabled

[Catalin Marinas]

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On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 09:14:06AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> My kvm-xfstests [1] VM doesn't boot with kmemleak enabled since commit
> c5665868183f ("mm: kmemleak: use the memory pool for early allocations").
> 
> There is no console output when running:
> 
> $ kvm -boot order=c -net none -machine type=pc,accel=kvm:tcg -cpu host \
>     -drive file=$ROOTFS,if=virtio,snapshot=on -vga none -nographic \
>     -smp 2 -m 2048 -serial mon:stdio --kernel $KERNEL \
>     --append 'root=/dev/vda console=ttyS0,115200'

This was fixed in 5.4-rc4, see commit 2abd839aa7e6 ("kmemleak: Do not
corrupt the object_list during clean-up").

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Catalin