Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | [PATCH 4/6] mm: Update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations | Date | Fri, 2 May 2014 14:41:08 +0100 |
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When mempool_alloc() returns an existing pool object, kmemleak_alloc() is no longer called and the stack trace corresponds to the original object allocation. This patch updates the kmemleak allocation stack trace for such objects to make it more useful for debugging.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> --- mm/mempool.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c index 905434f18c97..e7c4be024f1a 100644 --- a/mm/mempool.c +++ b/mm/mempool.c @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ #include <linux/mm.h> #include <linux/slab.h> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h> #include <linux/export.h> #include <linux/mempool.h> #include <linux/blkdev.h> @@ -220,6 +221,11 @@ repeat_alloc: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags); /* paired with rmb in mempool_free(), read comment there */ smp_wmb(); + /* + * Update the allocation stack trace as this is more useful + * for debugging. + */ + kmemleak_update_trace(element); return element; }
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