Re: kmemleak for MIPS

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le mercredi 30 mars 2011 à 14:17 +0100, Maxin John a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I have compiled the kernel with below given modification in .config
> 
> CONFIG_CMDLINE="uhash_entries=256"
> 
> After booting with the new kernel, the "kmemleak" no longer complains
> about the "udp_table_init".
> However it do report another possible leak :)
> 
> debian-mips:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
> unreferenced object 0x8f085000 (size 4096):
>   comm "swapper", pid 1, jiffies 4294937670 (age 1043.280s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<801ac7a8>] __kmalloc+0x130/0x180
>     [<80532500>] flow_cache_cpu_prepare+0x50/0xa8
>     [<8052378c>] flow_cache_init_global+0x90/0x138
>     [<80100584>] do_one_initcall+0x174/0x1e0
>     [<8050c348>] kernel_init+0xe4/0x174
>     [<80103d4c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18
> debian-mips:~#

Hmm, then MIPS kmemleak port might have a problem with percpu data ?

fcp->hash_table = kzalloc_node(sz, GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));

fcp is a per cpu "struct flow_cache_percpu"

> I completely agree with Daniel. Shall we move on and integrate the
> kmemleak support for MIPS ?