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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kmemleak: Fix scheduling-while-atomic bug
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On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 11:30 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
>
> > > The minimal fix below removes scan_yield() and adds a
> > > cond_resched() to the outmost (safe) place of the scanning
> > > thread. This solves the regression.
> >
> > With CONFIG_PREEMPT disabled it won't reschedule during the bss
> > scanning but I don't see this as a real issue (task stacks
> > scanning probably takes longer anyway).
>
> Yeah. I suspect one more cond_resched() could be added - i just
> didnt see an obvious place for it, given that scan_block() is being
> called with asymetric held-locks contexts.

Now that your patch was merged, I propose adding a few more
cond_resched() calls, useful for the !PREEMPT case:


kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning thread

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

Following recent patch to no longer reschedule in the scan_block()
function, we need a few more cond_resched() calls in the kmemleak_scan()
function (useful if PREEMPT is disabled).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
---
mm/kmemleak.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 013f188..b4f675e 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -932,13 +932,16 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)

/* data/bss scanning */
scan_block(_sdata, _edata, NULL);
+ cond_resched();
scan_block(__bss_start, __bss_stop, NULL);

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
/* per-cpu sections scanning */
- for_each_possible_cpu(i)
+ for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
+ cond_resched();
scan_block(__per_cpu_start + per_cpu_offset(i),
__per_cpu_end + per_cpu_offset(i), NULL);
+ }
#endif

/*
@@ -960,6 +963,7 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
/* only scan if page is in use */
if (page_count(page) == 0)
continue;
+ cond_resched();
scan_block(page, page + 1, NULL);
}
}
@@ -969,6 +973,7 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
* not enabled by default.
*/
if (kmemleak_stack_scan) {
+ cond_resched();
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
for_each_process(task)
scan_block(task_stack_page(task),

--
Catalin



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