Re: kmemleak for MIPS

[Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have prepared the combined patch for kmemleak porting to MIPS. After
applying the patch and enabling the kmemleak in Kernel, I can see one
kernel memleak reported during booting itself:
..
..

TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector initialized
rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: setting system clock to 2011-03-29 18:20:41 UTC (1301422841)
kmemleak: Automatic memory scanning thread started
EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs (hda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly on device 3:1.
Freeing prom memory: 956k freed
Freeing unused kernel memory: 244k freed
modprobe: FATAL: Could not load
/lib/modules/2.6.38-08826-g1788c20-dirty/modules.dep: No such file or
directory

INIT: version 2.86 booting
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevdudevd (863):
/proc/863/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/863/oom_score_adj
instead.
.
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...kmemleak: 1 new suspected
memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
....
....

debian-mips:~#
debian-mips:~# mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/
debian-mips:~#  cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0x8f90d000 (size 4096):
  comm "swapper", pid 1, jiffies 4294937330 (age 815.000s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<80529644>] alloc_large_system_hash+0x2f8/0x410
    [<805383b4>] udp_table_init+0x4c/0x158
    [<805384dc>] udp_init+0x1c/0x94
    [<8053889c>] inet_init+0x184/0x2a0
    [<80100584>] do_one_initcall+0x174/0x1e0
    [<8051f348>] kernel_init+0xe4/0x174
    [<80103d4c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18


The standard kmemleak test case is behaving as expected. Based on
this, I think, we can say that the kmemleak support for MIPS is
working.

Please let me know your comments.

Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
---
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
index 650ac9b..b4db69f 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@
 #define SMP_CACHE_SHIFT                L1_CACHE_SHIFT
 #define SMP_CACHE_BYTES                L1_CACHE_BYTES

-#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data.read_mostly")))
+#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly")))

 #endif /* _ASM_CACHE_H */
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 832afbb..501204d 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -68,12 +68,14 @@ SECTIONS
        RODATA

        /* writeable */
+        _sdata = .;                  /* Start of data section */
        .data : {       /* Data */
                . = . + DATAOFFSET;             /* for CONFIG_MAPPED_KERNEL */

                INIT_TASK_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
                NOSAVE_DATA
                CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(1 << CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
+               READ_MOSTLY_DATA(1 << CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
                DATA_DATA
                CONSTRUCTORS
        }
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index df9234c..5042421 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ config SLUB_STATS
 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
        bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
        depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
-               (X86 || ARM || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || SUPERH ||
MICROBLAZE || TILE)
+               (X86 || ARM || PPC || MIPS || S390 || SPARC64 ||
SUPERH || MICROBLAZE || TILE)

        select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
        select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT

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