Re: [PATCH 1/2] kmemleak: Inform kmemleak about kernel stack allocation

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 15:29 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Traversing all the tasks in the system for scanning the kernel 
> > > stacks requires locking which increases the kernel latency 
> > > considerably. This patch informs kmemleak about newly allocated or 
> > > freed stacks so that they are treated as any other allocated 
> > > object. Subsequent patch will remove the explicit stack scanning 
> > > from mm/kmemleak.c.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> > > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h |    7 ++++++-
> > >  arch/x86/kernel/process.c          |    2 ++
> > >  kernel/fork.c                      |    7 ++++++-
> > >  3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
> > > index fad7d40..f26432a 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
> > > @@ -162,7 +162,12 @@ struct thread_info {
> > >  #define __HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
> > >  
> > >  #define alloc_thread_info(tsk)						\
> > > -	((struct thread_info *)__get_free_pages(THREAD_FLAGS, THREAD_ORDER))
> > > +({									\
> > > +	struct thread_info *ti = (struct thread_info *)			\
> > > +		__get_free_pages(THREAD_FLAGS, THREAD_ORDER);		\
> > > +	kmemleak_alloc(ti, THREAD_SIZE, 1, THREAD_FLAGS);		\
> > > +	ti;								\
> > > +})
> > 
> > Sidenote:this used to be a trivial wrapper to gfp so it was 
> > borderline OK as a CPP macro - now it's a non-trivial CPP wrapper 
> > macro which is not OK. Mind converting it to an inline function?
> 
> I tried this first but got compilation errors in files that didn't 
> even call this function. To make it workable, thread_info.h would 
> need to include additional headers. If that's acceptable, I can 
> post an updated patch.

I havent tried the patch myself, but by your description those build 
problems seem to be pre-existing include file dependency problems 
that should be tracked down and resolved - instead of widening them 
by adding even more hidden dependencies via CPP macros.

	Ingo