Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: Avoid recursive loop with kmemleak

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On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 5:19 PM Kent Overstreet
<kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 04:49:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:30:55 -0700 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > > --- a/mm/kmemleak.c
> > > > > +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
> > > > > @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ static struct kmemleak_object *mem_pool_alloc(gfp_t gfp)
> > > > >
> > > > >       /* try the slab allocator first */
> > > > >       if (object_cache) {
> > > > > -             object = kmem_cache_alloc(object_cache, gfp_kmemleak_mask(gfp));
> > > > > +             object = kmem_cache_alloc_noprof(object_cache, gfp_kmemleak_mask(gfp));
> > > >
> > > > What do these get accounted to, or does this now pop a warning with
> > > > CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG?
> > >
> > > Thanks for the fix, Kees!
> > > I'll look into this recursion more closely to see if there is a better
> > > way to break it. As a stopgap measure seems ok to me. I also think
> > > it's unlikely that one would use both tracking mechanisms on the same
> > > system.
> >
> > I'd really like to start building mm-stable without having to route
> > around memprofiling.  How about I include Kees's patch in that for now?
>
> Agreed

Yes, please. When I figure out a better way, I'll post a separate patch. Thanks!





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