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From: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kmemleak infrastructure improvement for task_struct leaks and call_rcu()
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 13:29:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B2408F-05DD-4A82-BF97-372EA09FA873@lca.pw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200507171607.GD3180@gaia>



> On May 7, 2020, at 1:16 PM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't mind adding additional tracking info if it helps with debugging.
> But if it's for improving false positives, I'd prefer to look deeper
> into figure out why the pointer reference graph tracking failed.

No, the task struct leaks are real leaks. It is just painful to figure out the missing or misplaced put_task_struct() from the kmemleak reports at the moment.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-07 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-06 16:22 Qian Cai
2020-05-06 17:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-07 17:14   ` Catalin Marinas
2020-05-07 17:54     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-07 17:16 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-05-07 17:29   ` Qian Cai [this message]
2020-05-09  9:44     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-05-10 21:27       ` Qian Cai
2020-05-12 14:15         ` Catalin Marinas
2020-05-12 18:09           ` Qian Cai
2020-05-13  9:59             ` Catalin Marinas

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