Re: [PATCH] mm/memmap: Prevent double scanning of memmap by kmemleak

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 02:57:03PM +0800, Guo Weikang wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
> index 673d5cae7c81..b0483c534ef7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memblock.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
> @@ -375,7 +375,13 @@ static inline int memblock_get_region_node(const struct memblock_region *r)
>  }
>  #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
>  
> -/* Flags for memblock allocation APIs */
> +/*
> + * Flags for memblock allocation APIs
> + * MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE and MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE
> + * indicates wheather the allocation is limited by memblock.current_limit.
> + * MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_NOLEAKTRACE not only indicates that it does not need to
> + * be scanned by kmemleak, but also implies MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE
> + */

I'd keep the comment short here, something like:

/*
 * MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_NOLEAKTRACE avoids kmemleak tracing. It implies
 * MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE.
 */

>  #define MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE	(~(phys_addr_t)0)
>  #define MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE	0
>  #define MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_NOLEAKTRACE	1
> diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
> index 24b68b425afb..71b58f5f2492 100644
> --- a/mm/mm_init.c
> +++ b/mm/mm_init.c
> @@ -1580,6 +1580,10 @@ static void __init free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Kmemleak will explicitly scan mem_map by traversing all valid `struct *page`,
> + * so memblock does not need to be added to the scan list.
> + */
>  void __init *memmap_alloc(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align,
>  			  phys_addr_t min_addr, int nid, bool exact_nid)
>  {
> @@ -1587,11 +1591,11 @@ void __init *memmap_alloc(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align,
>  
>  	if (exact_nid)
>  		ptr = memblock_alloc_exact_nid_raw(size, align, min_addr,
> -						   MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE,
> +						   MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_NOLEAKTRACE,
>  						   nid);
>  	else
>  		ptr = memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(size, align, min_addr,
> -						 MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE,
> +						 MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_NOLEAKTRACE,
>  						 nid);
>  
>  	if (ptr && size > 0)
> diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
> index cec67c5f37d8..b6ac9b1d4ff7 100644
> --- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
> +++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
> @@ -27,25 +27,10 @@
>  #include <linux/spinlock.h>
>  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>  #include <linux/sched.h>
> -
> +#include "internal.h"
>  #include <asm/dma.h>
>  #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
>  
> -/*
> - * Allocate a block of memory to be used to back the virtual memory map
> - * or to back the page tables that are used to create the mapping.
> - * Uses the main allocators if they are available, else bootmem.
> - */
> -
> -static void * __ref __earlyonly_bootmem_alloc(int node,
> -				unsigned long size,
> -				unsigned long align,
> -				unsigned long goal)
> -{
> -	return memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(size, align, goal,
> -					       MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, node);
> -}
> -
>  void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node)
>  {
>  	/* If the main allocator is up use that, fallback to bootmem. */
> @@ -66,8 +51,7 @@ void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node)
>  		}
>  		return NULL;
>  	} else
> -		return __earlyonly_bootmem_alloc(node, size, size,
> -				__pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS));
> +		return memmap_alloc(size, size, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS), node, false);
>  }

As the kernel test robot reported, the __ref annotation for
__earlyonly_bootmem_alloc() is still needed, otherwise you get a warning
that a __meminit function (vmemmap_alloc_block()) is calling an __init
one (memmap_alloc()). So I think it's better if you keep this function.
Maybe get it to call memmap_alloc() instead of
memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw().

-- 
Catalin