When the cgroup base was allocated with kmalloc, it was necessary to
annotate the variable with kmemleak_not_leak(). But because it has
recently been changed to be allocated with alloc_page() (which skips
kmemleak checks) causes a warning on boot up.
I was triggering this output:
allocated 8388608 bytes of page_cgroup
please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups
kmemleak: Trying to color unknown object at 0xf5840000 as Grey
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0-test #12
Call Trace:
[<c17e34e6>] ? printk+0x1d/0x1f^M
[<c10e2941>] paint_ptr+0x4f/0x78
[<c178ab57>] kmemleak_not_leak+0x58/0x7d
[<c108ae9f>] ? __rcu_read_unlock+0x9/0x7d
[<c1cdb462>] kmemleak_init+0x19d/0x1e9
[<c1cbf771>] start_kernel+0x346/0x3ec
[<c1cbf1b4>] ? loglevel+0x18/0x18
[<c1cbf0aa>] i386_start_kernel+0xaa/0xb0
After a bit of debugging I tracked the object 0xf840000 (and others) down
to the cgroup code. The change from allocating base with kmalloc to
alloc_page() has the base not calling kmemleak_alloc() which adds the
pointer to the object_tree_root, but kmemleak_not_leak() adds it to the
crt_early_log[] table. On kmemleak_init(), the entry is found in the
early_log[] but not the object_tree_root, and this error message is
displayed.
If alloc_page() fails then it defaults back to vmalloc() which still uses
the kmemleak_alloc() which makes us still need the kmemleak_not_leak()
call. The solution is to call the kmemleak_alloc() directly if the
alloc_page() succeeds.
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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