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Commit 2ac0a4e9 authored by Vignesh Radhakrishnan's avatar Vignesh Radhakrishnan Committed by Venkata Narendra Kumar Gutta
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kmemleak : Make kmemleak_stack_scan optional using config 



Currently we have kmemleak_stack_scan enabled by default.
This can hog the cpu with pre-emption disabled for a long
time starving other tasks.

Make this optional at compile time, since if required
we can always write to sysfs entry and enable this option.

Change-Id: Ie30447861c942337c7ff25ac269b6025a527e8eb
Signed-off-by: default avatarVignesh Radhakrishnan <vigneshr@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVenkata Narendra Kumar Gutta <vnkgutta@codeaurora.org>
parent f29a17af

lib/Kconfig.debug

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@@ -1038,6 +1038,15 @@ config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 


	  If unsure, say N.



config DEBUG_TASK_STACK_SCAN_OFF

	bool "Disable kmemleak task stack scan by default"

	depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK

	help

	  Say Y here to disable kmemleak task stack scan by default

	  at compile time. It can be enabled later if required by

	  writing to the debugfs entry :

	  echo "stack=on" > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak.



config DEBUG_PREEMPT

	bool "Debug preemptible kernel"

	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT

mm/kmemleak.c

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@@ -226,8 +226,20 @@ static unsigned long jiffies_min_age; 
static unsigned long jiffies_last_scan;

/* delay between automatic memory scannings */

static signed long jiffies_scan_wait;

/* enables or disables the task stacks scanning */



/*

 * Enables or disables the task stacks scanning.

 * Set to 1 if at compile time we want it enabled.

 * Else set to 0 to have it disabled by default.

 * This can be enabled by writing to "stack=on" using

 * kmemleak debugfs entry.

 */

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_TASK_STACK_SCAN_OFF

static int kmemleak_stack_scan;

#else

static int kmemleak_stack_scan = 1;

#endif



/* protects the memory scanning, parameters and debug/kmemleak file access */

static DEFINE_MUTEX(scan_mutex);

/* setting kmemleak=on, will set this var, skipping the disable */