Re: [PATCHv3] mm: use stack_depot_early_init for kmemleak

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Wed Jan 18 2023 - 09:43:45 EST


On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 10:07:35AM +0800, zhaoyang.huang wrote:
> Mirsad report bellow error which caused by stack_depot_init failed in kvcalloc.
> Solve this by having stackdepot use stack_depot_early_init.
[...]
> diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
> index 762b91f..ddc1ddf 100644
> --- a/mm/kmemleak.c
> +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
> @@ -2070,8 +2070,10 @@ static int __init kmemleak_boot_config(char *str)
> return -EINVAL;
> if (strcmp(str, "off") == 0)
> kmemleak_disable();
> - else if (strcmp(str, "on") == 0)
> + else if (strcmp(str, "on") == 0) {
> kmemleak_skip_disable = 1;
> + stack_depot_want_early_init();
> + }

Does this fix still work if kmemleak is default on and no option passed
on the kernel command line? I thought we also need something like:

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 881c3f84e88a..80c69d026890 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -754,6 +754,7 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
select KALLSYMS
select CRC32
select STACKDEPOT
+ select STACKDEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT if !DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
help
Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way

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Catalin