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SubjectRe: kmemleak: Early log buffer exceeded (525980) during boot
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On 11/10/18 11:59 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:08:10AM -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
>> On Nov 8, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Qian Cai <cai@gmx.us> wrote:
>>> The maximum value for DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE is only 40000, so it
>>> disables kmemleak every time on this aarch64 server running the latest mainline
>>> (b00d209).
>>>
>>> # echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
>>> -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
>>>
>>> Any idea on how to enable kmemleak there?
>>
>> I have managed to hard-code DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE to 600000,
>
> That's quite a high number, I wouldn't have thought it is needed.
> Basically the early log buffer is only used until the slub allocator
> gets initialised and kmemleak_init() is called from start_kernel(). I
> don't know what allocates that much memory so early.
>

It turned out that kmemleak does not play well with KASAN on those aarch64 (HPE
Apollo 70 and Huawei TaiShan 2280) servers.

After calling start_kernel()->setup_arch()->kasan_init(), kmemleak early log
buffer went from something like from 280 to 260000. The multitude of
kmemleak_alloc() calls is,

for_each_memblock(memory, reg) x \
while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end) x \
while (ptep++, addr = next, addr != end && \ pte_none(READ_ONCE(*ptep)))

Is this expected?

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