Commit 008139d9 authored Aug 27, 2009 by Catalin Marinas

kmemleak: Do not report alloc_bootmem blocks as leaks



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>

parent fd678967

mm/bootmem.c

+5 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -521,7 +521,11 @@ static void * __init alloc_bootmem_core(struct bootmem_data *bdata,
		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;
		}