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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kmemleak: skip scanning holes in the .bss section
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:57:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190319115747.GB59586@arrakis.emea.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190313145717.46369-1-cai@lca.pw>

Hi Qian,

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:57:17AM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> @@ -1531,7 +1547,14 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
>  
>  	/* data/bss scanning */
>  	scan_large_block(_sdata, _edata);
> -	scan_large_block(__bss_start, __bss_stop);
> +
> +	if (bss_hole_start) {
> +		scan_large_block(__bss_start, bss_hole_start);
> +		scan_large_block(bss_hole_stop, __bss_stop);
> +	} else {
> +		scan_large_block(__bss_start, __bss_stop);
> +	}
> +
>  	scan_large_block(__start_ro_after_init, __end_ro_after_init);

I'm not a fan of this approach but I couldn't come up with anything
better. I was hoping we could check for PageReserved() in scan_block()
but on arm64 it ends up not scanning the .bss at all.

Until another user appears, I'm ok with this patch.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-19 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-13 14:57 [PATCH v2] kmemleak: skip scanning holes in the .bss section Qian Cai
2019-03-19 11:57 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2019-03-20 13:15   ` Michael Ellerman
2019-03-20 18:16     ` Catalin Marinas
2019-03-20 20:04       ` Qian Cai
2019-03-21  5:15       ` Michael Ellerman

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