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Tobias Klauser 4641961cff Documentation/features: Add kmemleak
Replace the manually curated list for supported archs in
Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst by a Documentation/features entry.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200627091510.28210-1-tklauser@distanz.ch
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-05 14:14:02 -06:00
Jonathan Neuschäfer 6480e44964 docs: dev-tools: kmemleak: Update list of architectures
* Don't list powerpc twice (once as ppc)
* Drop tile, which has been removed from the source tree
* Mention arm64, nds32, arc, and xtensa

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200303194215.23756-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-10 11:32:12 -06:00
Jeremy Cline 2c861bf5e6 docs: kmemleak: DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE changed names
Commit c566586818 ("mm: kmemleak: use the memory pool for early
allocations") renamed CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE to
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE. Update the documentation reference
to reflect that.

Fixes: c566586818 ("mm: kmemleak: use the memory pool for early allocations")
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-10-01 06:50:17 -06:00
André Almeida b7c3613e68 docs: kmemleak: add more documentation details
Wikipedia now has a main article to "tracing garbage collector" topic.
Change the URL and use the reStructuredText syntax for hyperlinks and add
more details about the use of the tool.  Add a section about how to use
the kmemleak-test module to test the memory leak scanning.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190612155231.19448-2-andrealmeid@collabora.com
Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-07-12 11:05:42 -07:00
James Hogan 6a7676852e
docs: Remove remaining references to metag
Remove any remaining references to the Meta architecture in
Documentation/, primarily from Documentation/features/.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
2018-02-22 11:07:37 +00:00
Catalin Marinas 94f4a1618b mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects
Kmemleak requires that vmalloc'ed objects have a minimum reference count
of 2: one in the corresponding vm_struct object and the other owned by
the vmalloc() caller.  There are cases, however, where the original
vmalloc() returned pointer is lost and, instead, a pointer to vm_struct
is stored (see free_thread_stack()).  Kmemleak currently reports such
objects as leaks.

This patch adds support for treating any surplus references to an object
as additional references to a specified object.  It introduces the
kmemleak_vmalloc() API function which takes a vm_struct pointer and sets
its surplus reference passing to the actual vmalloc() returned pointer.
The __vmalloc_node_range() calling site has been modified accordingly.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495726937-23557-4-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
Catalin Marinas 9099daed9c mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mapping
Some of the kmemleak_*() callbacks in memblock, bootmem, CMA convert a
physical address to a virtual one using __va().  However, such physical
addresses may sometimes be located in highmem and using __va() is
incorrect, leading to inconsistent object tracking in kmemleak.

The following functions have been added to the kmemleak API and they take
a physical address as the object pointer.  They only perform the
corresponding action if the address has a lowmem mapping:

kmemleak_alloc_phys
kmemleak_free_part_phys
kmemleak_not_leak_phys
kmemleak_ignore_phys

The affected calling places have been updated to use the new kmemleak
API.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471531432-16503-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet ca90a7a387 docs: sphinxify kmemleak.txt and move it to dev-tools
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-18 17:41:57 -06:00