From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC9EEC433F5 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2021 10:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9FCF61131 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2021 10:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231613AbhKEKwf (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2021 06:52:35 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:34554 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230003AbhKEKwd (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2021 06:52:33 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 160CF610A8; Fri, 5 Nov 2021 10:49:51 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1636109394; bh=flL52suMqN/frqIhABji+kP/KZLf7M9LOU0RKHo6DLY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=UHIkVgQ6n5Zyxz0A4kkUqNx//vww03JEjx7BVRVBn8g1SzYXC5XpSbyPhTc/6CQp4 7VvwqDdzpzd5lnQZuG1gkrjKQUw/axAdmhmkty0yFl7yf4j5fZ1+WDyQbYBQ+CR5iL uKM5GooAJ9Dk/qzcZ2aGLEpvAzSxszQO3tKsKlusWO6SZ9ay3dcZVq7BZ6YAxjKpBt Loq6f+itdJBPQRJ3z2TK7BwsVXHVaHayAVENKVzqG8b3o/UxRLB5xDvAuuRvJOlwQv OSBPYK6iOpIBiL9CWWeclndyZnEpXH7fodmG5ZzSqos+qgsxd46iR9l4dybgF4jTyU GRhROeEeCPH3g== Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 12:49:47 +0200 From: Mike Rapoport To: Qian Cai Cc: Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Andrew Morton , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Track no early_pgtable_alloc() for kmemleak Message-ID: References: <20211104155623.11158-1-quic_qiancai@quicinc.com> <9bb6fe11-c10a-a373-9288-d44a5ba976fa@quicinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9bb6fe11-c10a-a373-9288-d44a5ba976fa@quicinc.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 01:57:03PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote: > > > On 11/4/21 1:06 PM, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > I think I'll be better to rename MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_KASAN to, say, > > MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_NOKMEMLEAK and use that for both KASAN and page table cases. > > Okay, that would look a bit nicer. > > > But more generally, we are going to hit this again and again. > > Couldn't we add a memblock allocation as a mean to get more memory to > > kmemleak::mem_pool_alloc()? > > For the last 5 years, this is the second time I am ware of this kind of > issue just because of the 64KB->4KB switch on those servers, although I > agree it could happen again in the future due to some new debugging > features etc. I don't feel a strong need to rewrite it now though. Not > sure if Catalin saw things differently. Anyway, Mike, do you agree that > we could rewrite that separately in the future? Yeah, the rework can definitely go on top. -- Sincerely yours, Mike.