Hello! This series improves diagnostics by providing access to return addresses and stack traces collected by the sl*b allocators. If the allocator is not configured to collect this information, the diagnostics fall back to a reasonable approximation of their earlier state. One use case is the queue_rcu_work() function, which might be used by any number of kernel subsystems. If the caller does back-to-back invocations of queue_rcu_work(), this constitutes a double-free bug, and (if so configured) the debug-objects system will flag this, printing the callback function. In most cases, printing this function suffices. However, for double-free bugs involving queue_rcu_work(), the RCU callback function will always be rcu_work_rcufn(), which provides almost no help to the poor person trying to find this double-free bug. The return address from the allocator of the memory containing the rcu_work structure can provide an additional valuable clue. Another use case is the percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_rcu() function, which detects percpu_ref reference-count underflow. Unfortunately, the only data that this function has access to doesn't have much in the way of identifying characteristics. Yes, it might be possible to gain more information from a crash dump, but it is more convenient for the needed hints to be in the console log. Unfortunately, printing the return address in this case is of little help because this object is allocated from percpu_ref_init(), regardless of what part of the kernel is responsible for the reference-count underflow. However, CONFIG_STACKTRACE=y kernels (such as those enabling ftrace) using slub with debugging enabled also collect stack traces. This series therefore also provides a way of extracting these stack traces to provide additional information to those debugging percpu_ref reference-count underflows. The patches are as follows: 1. Add kmem_last_alloc() to return last allocation for memory block. 2. Add kmem_last_alloc_errstring() to provide more kmem_last_alloc() info. 3. Make call_rcu() print allocation address of double-freed callback. 4. Create kmem_last_alloc_stack() to provide stack trace in slub. 5. percpu_ref: Print allocator upon reference-count underflow. 6. percpu_ref: Print stack trace upon reference-count underflow. Thanx, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ include/linux/slab.h | 15 ++++++++ kernel/rcu/tree.c | 12 +++++- lib/percpu-refcount.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++------ mm/slab.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------ mm/slab_common.c | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ mm/slob.c | 11 +++++- mm/slub.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++-- 7 files changed, 222 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
