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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4] kmemleak: survive in a low-memory situation
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 05:29:57PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 09:44:32AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > As long as there is an implicit __GFP_NOFAIL then kmemleak is simply
> > broken no matter what other gfp flags you play with. Has anybody looked
> > at some sort of preallocation where gfpflags_allow_blocking context
> > allocate objects into a pool that non-sleeping allocations can eat from?
>
> Quick attempt below and it needs some more testing (pretty random pick
> of the EMERGENCY_POOL_SIZE value). Also, with __GFP_NOFAIL removed, are
> the other flags safe or we should trim them further?

Why not use mempool?

> #define gfp_kmemleak_mask(gfp) (((gfp) & (GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC)) | \
> __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | \
> - __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NOFAIL)
> + __GFP_NOWARN)

Why GFP_NORETRY? And if I have specified one of the other retry policies
in my gfp flags, you should presumably clear that off before setting
GFP_NORETRY.

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