The patch titled
Subject: mm: move KMEMLEAK's Kconfig items from lib to mm
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-move-kmemleaks-kconfig-items-from-lib-to-mm.patch
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-move-kmemleaks-kconfig-items-from-lib-to-mm.patch
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: move KMEMLEAK's Kconfig items from lib to mm
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 09:22:24 +0800
Have the kmemleak's source code and Kconfig items be in the same directory.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1674091345-14799-1-git-send-email-zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: ke.wang <ke.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug~mm-move-kmemleaks-kconfig-items-from-lib-to-mm
+++ a/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -743,76 +743,6 @@ config SHRINKER_DEBUG
visibility into the kernel memory shrinkers subsystem.
Disable it to avoid an extra memory footprint.
-config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
- bool
-
-config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
- bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
- select DEBUG_FS
- select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
- select KALLSYMS
- select CRC32
- select STACKDEPOT
- help
- Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
- detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
- similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
- difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
- only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
- feature will introduce an overhead to memory
- allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
- details.
-
- Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
- of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
-
- In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
- mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
-
-config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE
- int "Kmemleak memory pool size"
- depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
- range 200 1000000
- default 16000
- help
- Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
- reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
- freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool
- of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is
- fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one
- if slab allocations fail.
-
-config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
- tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
- depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
- help
- This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
-
- If unsure, say N.
-
-config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
- bool "Default kmemleak to off"
- depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
- help
- Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
- on the command line via kmemleak=on.
-
-config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN
- bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up"
- default y
- depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
- help
- Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can
- stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic
- kmemleak scan at boot up.
-
- Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic
- scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of
- memory leaks.
-
- If unsure, say Y.
-
config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
bool "Stack utilization instrumentation"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64
--- a/mm/Kconfig.debug~mm-move-kmemleaks-kconfig-items-from-lib-to-mm
+++ a/mm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -207,3 +207,73 @@ config PTDUMP_DEBUGFS
kernel.
If in doubt, say N.
+
+config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ bool
+
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ select DEBUG_FS
+ select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
+ select KALLSYMS
+ select CRC32
+ select STACKDEPOT
+ help
+ Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
+ detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
+ similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
+ difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
+ only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
+ feature will introduce an overhead to memory
+ allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
+ details.
+
+ Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
+ of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
+
+ In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
+ mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
+
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE
+ int "Kmemleak memory pool size"
+ depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ range 200 1000000
+ default 16000
+ help
+ Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
+ reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
+ freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool
+ of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is
+ fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one
+ if slab allocations fail.
+
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
+ tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
+ depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
+ help
+ This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
+ bool "Default kmemleak to off"
+ depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ help
+ Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
+ on the command line via kmemleak=on.
+
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN
+ bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up"
+ default y
+ depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ help
+ Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can
+ stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic
+ kmemleak scan at boot up.
+
+ Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic
+ scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of
+ memory leaks.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-move-kmemleaks-kconfig-items-from-lib-to-mm.patch
mm-use-stack_depot_early_init-for-kmemleak.patch
