Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH 5/8] kmemleak: Do not report alloc_bootmem blocks as leaks | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Date | Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:12:29 +0100 |
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This patch sets the min_count for alloc_bootmem objects to 0 so that they are never reported as leaks. This is because many of these blocks are only referred via the physical address which is not looked up by kmemleak.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> --- mm/bootmem.c | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c index 701740c..555d5d2 100644 --- a/mm/bootmem.c +++ b/mm/bootmem.c @@ -521,7 +521,11 @@ find_block: region = phys_to_virt(PFN_PHYS(bdata->node_min_pfn) + start_off); memset(region, 0, size); - kmemleak_alloc(region, size, 1, 0); + /* + * The min_count is set to 0 so that bootmem allocated blocks + * are never reported as leaks. + */ + kmemleak_alloc(region, size, 0, 0); return region; }
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