From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: kmemleak: default min_unref_scans to 2 for verbose auto-scan
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 14:47:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <anCb8tz8KTwe9f6u@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260731-kmemleak_hardened-v2-1-7b9689ac77cb@debian.org>
On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 03:13:04AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> min_unref_scans defers reporting an object as leaked until it has stayed
> unreferenced for that many consecutive scans, filtering out objects that
> are only transiently unreferenced during a scan.
>
> It defaults to 1, which reports on the first unreferenced scan.
>
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_VERBOSE depends on CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN,
> so a kernel built with it runs the scan thread periodically and the user
> has opted into detailed leak reporting. A second confirming scan then
> happens on its own.
>
> Default min_unref_scans to 2 there to suppress transient false positives,
> and keep it at 1 otherwise, where a manually triggered scan is expected to
> report immediately. The value stays writable through the module parameter.
>
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_VERBOSE defaults to n, so this does not change the
> default for kernels that do not opt in.
>
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-03 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-31 10:13 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm: kmemleak: default min_unref_scans to 2 for verbose kernels Breno Leitao
2026-07-31 10:13 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: kmemleak: default min_unref_scans to 2 for verbose auto-scan Breno Leitao
2026-08-03 13:47 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2026-07-31 10:13 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: kmemleak: document the conditional min_unref_scans default Breno Leitao
2026-08-03 13:49 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-07-31 10:13 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] selftests/mm: kmemleak: drop stale min_unref_scans default from comments Breno Leitao
2026-08-03 13:49 ` Catalin Marinas
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