On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 01:57:03PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote: > > > On 11/4/21 1:06 PM, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > I think I'll be better to rename MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_KASAN to, say, > > MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_NOKMEMLEAK and use that for both KASAN and page table cases. > > Okay, that would look a bit nicer. > > > But more generally, we are going to hit this again and again. > > Couldn't we add a memblock allocation as a mean to get more memory to > > kmemleak::mem_pool_alloc()? > > For the last 5 years, this is the second time I am ware of this kind of > issue just because of the 64KB->4KB switch on those servers, although I > agree it could happen again in the future due to some new debugging > features etc. I don't feel a strong need to rewrite it now though. Not > sure if Catalin saw things differently. Anyway, Mike, do you agree that > we could rewrite that separately in the future? Yeah, the rework can definitely go on top. -- Sincerely yours, Mike.
