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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-07-07 10:32:58 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-07-08 14:25:13 +0100
commit2587362eaf5c9df4e08de11e6340e3c4a88ed4c8 (patch)
tree90fc902a3c131146981164b859ed009d20157333 /mm/kmemleak.c
parentb87324d082d9d898e3c06b2a07a2b94b2430b8ba (diff)
kmemleak: Scan objects allocated during a scanning episode
Many of the false positives in kmemleak happen on busy systems where objects are allocated during a kmemleak scanning episode. These objects aren't scanned by default until the next memory scan. When such object is added, for example, at the head of a list, it is possible that all the other objects in the list become unreferenced until the next scan. This patch adds checking for newly allocated objects at the end of the scan and repeats the scanning on these objects. If Linux allocates new objects at a higher rate than their scanning, it stops after a predefined number of passes. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/kmemleak.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/kmemleak.c43
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 7cfb7d014a20..466d39007264 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@
#define MSECS_MIN_AGE 5000 /* minimum object age for reporting */
#define SECS_FIRST_SCAN 60 /* delay before the first scan */
#define SECS_SCAN_WAIT 600 /* subsequent auto scanning delay */
+#define GRAY_LIST_PASSES 25 /* maximum number of gray list scans */
#define BYTES_PER_POINTER sizeof(void *)
@@ -157,6 +158,8 @@ struct kmemleak_object {
#define OBJECT_REPORTED (1 << 1)
/* flag set to not scan the object */
#define OBJECT_NO_SCAN (1 << 2)
+/* flag set on newly allocated objects */
+#define OBJECT_NEW (1 << 3)
/* the list of all allocated objects */
static LIST_HEAD(object_list);
@@ -270,6 +273,11 @@ static int color_gray(const struct kmemleak_object *object)
return object->min_count != -1 && object->count >= object->min_count;
}
+static int color_black(const struct kmemleak_object *object)
+{
+ return object->min_count == -1;
+}
+
/*
* Objects are considered unreferenced only if their color is white, they have
* not be deleted and have a minimum age to avoid false positives caused by
@@ -447,7 +455,7 @@ static void create_object(unsigned long ptr, size_t size, int min_count,
INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&object->area_list);
spin_lock_init(&object->lock);
atomic_set(&object->use_count, 1);
- object->flags = OBJECT_ALLOCATED;
+ object->flags = OBJECT_ALLOCATED | OBJECT_NEW;
object->pointer = ptr;
object->size = size;
object->min_count = min_count;
@@ -901,6 +909,7 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
struct task_struct *task;
int i;
int new_leaks = 0;
+ int gray_list_pass = 0;
jiffies_last_scan = jiffies;
@@ -921,6 +930,7 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
#endif
/* reset the reference count (whiten the object) */
object->count = 0;
+ object->flags &= ~OBJECT_NEW;
if (color_gray(object) && get_object(object))
list_add_tail(&object->gray_list, &gray_list);
@@ -983,6 +993,7 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
* kmemleak objects cannot be freed from outside the loop because their
* use_count was increased.
*/
+repeat:
object = list_entry(gray_list.next, typeof(*object), gray_list);
while (&object->gray_list != &gray_list) {
cond_resched();
@@ -1000,12 +1011,38 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
object = tmp;
}
+
+ if (scan_should_stop() || ++gray_list_pass >= GRAY_LIST_PASSES)
+ goto scan_end;
+
+ /*
+ * Check for new objects allocated during this scanning and add them
+ * to the gray list.
+ */
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(object, &object_list, object_list) {
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&object->lock, flags);
+ if ((object->flags & OBJECT_NEW) && !color_black(object) &&
+ get_object(object)) {
+ object->flags &= ~OBJECT_NEW;
+ list_add_tail(&object->gray_list, &gray_list);
+ }
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&object->lock, flags);
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ if (!list_empty(&gray_list))
+ goto repeat;
+
+scan_end:
WARN_ON(!list_empty(&gray_list));
/*
- * If scanning was stopped do not report any new unreferenced objects.
+ * If scanning was stopped or new objects were being allocated at a
+ * higher rate than gray list scanning, do not report any new
+ * unreferenced objects.
*/
- if (scan_should_stop())
+ if (scan_should_stop() || gray_list_pass >= GRAY_LIST_PASSES)
return;
/*