[PATCH v3 0/3] mm: kmemleak: Use a memory pool for kmemleak object allocations

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Mon Aug 12 2019 - 12:06:48 EST


Following the discussions on v2 of this patch(set) [1], this series
takes slightly different approach:

- it implements its own simple memory pool that does not rely on the
slab allocator

- drops the early log buffer logic entirely since it can now allocate
metadata from the memory pool directly before kmemleak is fully
initialised

- CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE option is renamed to
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE

- moves the kmemleak_init() call earlier (mm_init())

- to avoid a separate memory pool for struct scan_area, it makes the
tool robust when such allocations fail as scan areas are rather an
optimisation

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190727132334.9184-1-catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx

Catalin Marinas (3):
mm: kmemleak: Make the tool tolerant to struct scan_area allocation
failures
mm: kmemleak: Simple memory allocation pool for kmemleak objects
mm: kmemleak: Use the memory pool for early allocations

init/main.c | 2 +-
lib/Kconfig.debug | 11 +-
mm/kmemleak.c | 325 ++++++++++++----------------------------------
3 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 247 deletions(-)