Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: Report if we need to tune KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE

From: Jan Kiszka
Date: Tue Apr 24 2018 - 12:10:26 EST


On 2018-04-24 17:55, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 05:51:15PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> ...rather than just mysteriously disabling it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/kmemleak.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
>> index 9a085d525bbc..156c0c69cc5c 100644
>> --- a/mm/kmemleak.c
>> +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
>> @@ -863,6 +863,7 @@ static void __init log_early(int op_type, const void *ptr, size_t size,
>>
>> if (crt_early_log >= ARRAY_SIZE(early_log)) {
>> crt_early_log++;
>> + pr_warn("Too many early logs\n");
>
> That's already printed, though later where we have an idea of how big the early
> log needs to be:
>
> if (crt_early_log > ARRAY_SIZE(early_log))
> pr_warn("Early log buffer exceeded (%d), please increase DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE\n",
> crt_early_log);
>

Well, that's good, but where you read "detector disabled", there is no
hint on that. I missed that because subsystems tend to not do any
further actions after telling they are off.

BTW, my system (virtual ARM64 target) required 26035 entries, which is a
few orders of magnitude above the default and pretty close the the
limit. What's causing this? Other debug options?

Jan

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