Re: [PATCH v3] mm/kasan: dump alloc and free stack for page allocator
From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Thu Sep 12 2019 - 10:08:46 EST
On 9/12/19 4:53 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 9/11/19 5:19 PM, Qian Cai wrote:
>>
>> The new config looks redundant and confusing. It looks to me more of a document update
>> in Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.txt to educate developers to select PAGE_OWNER and
>> DEBUG_PAGEALLOC if needed.
>
> Agreed. But if you want it fully automatic, how about something
> like this (on top of mmotm/next)? If you agree I'll add changelog
> and send properly.
>
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> From a528d14c71d7fdf5872ca8ab3bd1b5bad26670c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:51:23 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] make KASAN enable page_owner with free stack capture
>
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> include/linux/page_owner.h | 1 +
> lib/Kconfig.kasan | 4 ++++
> mm/Kconfig.debug | 5 +++++
> mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +++++-
> mm/page_owner.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 5 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
Looks ok to me. This certainly better than full dependency on the DEBUG_PAGEALLOC which we don't need.