Re: [REGRESSION] kmemleak: commit c566586818 causes failure to boot

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 01:51:15PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> In your case, CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, so it disables itself
> irrespective of the pool size and trips over the bug. Even with default
> off, it still involves the clean-up since kmemleak needs to track early
> allocations in case it is turned on by the kmemleak=on cmdline option.
> 
> So I think 16000 is sufficient in your case, the default-off triggered
> the bug (well, unless you find in the logs "kmemleak: Memory pool empty,
> consider increasing CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE").

Ah, got it, thanks for the clarification!

					- Ted