From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: Track no early_pgtable_alloc() for kmemleak
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 18:38:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YYV6PPpH6Y+APfsm@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211105150509.7826-1-quic_qiancai@quicinc.com>
On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 11:05:09AM -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@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-05 15:05 [PATCH v2] arm64: Track no early_pgtable_alloc() for kmemleak Qian Cai
2021-11-05 18:38 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2021-11-05 19:49 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-11-08 10:37 ` Will Deacon
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