[PATCH] arm64: Track no early_pgtable_alloc() for kmemleak
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Nov 4 10:09:59 PDT 2021
On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 11:56:23AM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> After switched page size from 64KB to 4KB on several arm64 servers here,
> kmemleak starts to run out of early memory pool due to a huge number of
> those early_pgtable_alloc() calls:
>
> kmemleak_alloc_phys()
> memblock_alloc_range_nid()
> memblock_phys_alloc_range()
> early_pgtable_alloc()
> init_pmd()
> alloc_init_pud()
> __create_pgd_mapping()
> __map_memblock()
> paging_init()
> setup_arch()
> start_kernel()
>
> Increased the default value of DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE by 4 times
> won't be enough for a server with 200GB+ memory. There isn't much
> interesting to check memory leaks for those early page tables and those
> early memory mappings should not reference to other memory. Hence, no
> kmemleak false positives, and we can safely skip tracking those early
> allocations from kmemleak like we did in the commit fed84c785270
> ("mm/memblock.c: skip kmemleak for kasan_init()") without needing to
> introduce complications to automatically scale the value depends on the
> runtime memory size etc. After the patch, the default value of
> DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE becomes sufficient again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai at quicinc.com>
Looks fine to me:
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
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