[PATCH 4/4] mm: kfence: Only load kfence_test when kfence is enabled
Kefeng Wang
wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com
Wed Aug 25 02:55:01 PDT 2021
On 2021/8/25 17:31, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 11:17 AM Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com> wrote:
>> Provide kfence_is_enabled() helper, only load kfence_test module
>> when kfence is enabled.
> What's wrong with the current behavior?
> I think we need at least some way to tell the developer that KFENCE
> does not work, and a failing test seems to be the perfect one.
If the kfence is not enabled, eg kfence.sample_interval=0, kfence_test
spend too much time,
and all tests will fails. It is meaningless. so better to just skip it ;)
>> diff --git a/mm/kfence/kfence_test.c b/mm/kfence/kfence_test.c
>> index eb6307c199ea..4087f9f1497e 100644
>> --- a/mm/kfence/kfence_test.c
>> +++ b/mm/kfence/kfence_test.c
>> @@ -847,6 +847,8 @@ static void unregister_tracepoints(struct tracepoint *tp, void *ignore)
>> */
>> static int __init kfence_test_init(void)
>> {
>> + if (!kfence_is_enabled())
Add a print info here?
>> + return 0;
>> /*
>> * Because we want to be able to build the test as a module, we need to
>> * iterate through all known tracepoints, since the static registration
>> --
>> 2.26.2
>>
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