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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-07-12T19:24:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2009-07-12T19:24:35+00:00</published>
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* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Remove alloc_bootmem annotations introduced in the past
  kmemleak: Add callbacks to the bootmem allocator
  kmemleak: Allow partial freeing of memory blocks
  kmemleak: Trace the kmalloc_large* functions in slub
  kmemleak: Scan objects allocated during a scanning episode
  kmemleak: Do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_open()
  kmemleak: Remove the reported leaks number limitation
  kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning thread
  kmemleak: Renice the scanning thread to +10
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* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Remove alloc_bootmem annotations introduced in the past
  kmemleak: Add callbacks to the bootmem allocator
  kmemleak: Allow partial freeing of memory blocks
  kmemleak: Trace the kmalloc_large* functions in slub
  kmemleak: Scan objects allocated during a scanning episode
  kmemleak: Do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_open()
  kmemleak: Remove the reported leaks number limitation
  kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning thread
  kmemleak: Renice the scanning thread to +10
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<title>Fix congestion_wait() sync/async vs read/write confusion</title>
<updated>2009-07-10T18:31:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2009-07-09T12:52:32+00:00</published>
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Commit 1faa16d22877f4839bd433547d770c676d1d964c accidentally broke
the bdi congestion wait queue logic, causing us to wait on congestion
for WRITE (== 1) when we really wanted BLK_RW_ASYNC (== 0) instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Commit 1faa16d22877f4839bd433547d770c676d1d964c accidentally broke
the bdi congestion wait queue logic, causing us to wait on congestion
for WRITE (== 1) when we really wanted BLK_RW_ASYNC (== 0) instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>kmemleak: Remove alloc_bootmem annotations introduced in the past</title>
<updated>2009-07-09T16:07:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2009-07-07T09:33:01+00:00</published>
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kmemleak_alloc() calls were added in some places where alloc_bootmem was
called. Since now kmemleak tracks bootmem allocations, these explicit
calls should be run.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
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kmemleak_alloc() calls were added in some places where alloc_bootmem was
called. Since now kmemleak tracks bootmem allocations, these explicit
calls should be run.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
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<title>kmemleak: Add callbacks to the bootmem allocator</title>
<updated>2009-07-08T13:25:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2009-07-07T09:33:01+00:00</published>
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This patch adds kmemleak_alloc/free callbacks to the bootmem allocator.
This would allow scanning of such blocks and help avoiding a whole class
of false positives and more kmemleak annotations.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
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This patch adds kmemleak_alloc/free callbacks to the bootmem allocator.
This would allow scanning of such blocks and help avoiding a whole class
of false positives and more kmemleak annotations.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
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<title>kmemleak: Allow partial freeing of memory blocks</title>
<updated>2009-07-08T13:25:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2009-07-07T09:33:00+00:00</published>
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Functions like free_bootmem() are allowed to free only part of a memory
block. This patch adds support for this via the kmemleak_free_part()
callback which removes the original object and creates one or two
additional objects as a result of the memory block split.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
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Functions like free_bootmem() are allowed to free only part of a memory
block. This patch adds support for this via the kmemleak_free_part()
callback which removes the original object and creates one or two
additional objects as a result of the memory block split.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
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<title>kmemleak: Trace the kmalloc_large* functions in slub</title>
<updated>2009-07-08T13:25:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-07T09:32:59+00:00</published>
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The kmalloc_large() and kmalloc_large_node() functions were missed when
adding the kmemleak hooks to the slub allocator. However, they should be
traced to avoid false positives.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
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The kmalloc_large() and kmalloc_large_node() functions were missed when
adding the kmemleak hooks to the slub allocator. However, they should be
traced to avoid false positives.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
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<title>kmemleak: Scan objects allocated during a scanning episode</title>
<updated>2009-07-08T13:25:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2009-07-07T09:32:58+00:00</published>
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Many of the false positives in kmemleak happen on busy systems where
objects are allocated during a kmemleak scanning episode. These objects
aren't scanned by default until the next memory scan. When such object
is added, for example, at the head of a list, it is possible that all
the other objects in the list become unreferenced until the next scan.

This patch adds checking for newly allocated objects at the end of the
scan and repeats the scanning on these objects. If Linux allocates
new objects at a higher rate than their scanning, it stops after a
predefined number of passes.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Many of the false positives in kmemleak happen on busy systems where
objects are allocated during a kmemleak scanning episode. These objects
aren't scanned by default until the next memory scan. When such object
is added, for example, at the head of a list, it is possible that all
the other objects in the list become unreferenced until the next scan.

This patch adds checking for newly allocated objects at the end of the
scan and repeats the scanning on these objects. If Linux allocates
new objects at a higher rate than their scanning, it stops after a
predefined number of passes.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>kmemleak: Do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_open()</title>
<updated>2009-07-08T13:25:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2009-07-07T09:32:58+00:00</published>
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Initially, the scan_mutex was acquired in kmemleak_open() and released
in kmemleak_release() (corresponding to /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
operations). This was causing some lockdep reports when the file was
closed from a different task than the one opening it. This patch moves
the scan_mutex acquiring in kmemleak_write() or kmemleak_seq_start()
with releasing in kmemleak_seq_stop().

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Initially, the scan_mutex was acquired in kmemleak_open() and released
in kmemleak_release() (corresponding to /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
operations). This was causing some lockdep reports when the file was
closed from a different task than the one opening it. This patch moves
the scan_mutex acquiring in kmemleak_write() or kmemleak_seq_start()
with releasing in kmemleak_seq_stop().

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>kmemleak: Remove the reported leaks number limitation</title>
<updated>2009-07-08T13:25:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-07T09:32:57+00:00</published>
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Since the leaks are no longer printed to the syslog, there is no point
in keeping this limitation. All the suspected leaks are shown on
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Since the leaks are no longer printed to the syslog, there is no point
in keeping this limitation. All the suspected leaks are shown on
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning thread</title>
<updated>2009-07-07T09:32:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2009-07-07T09:32:56+00:00</published>
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Following recent fix to no longer reschedule in the scan_block()
function, the system may become unresponsive with !PREEMPT. This patch
re-adds the cond_resched() call to scan_block() but conditioned by the
allow_resched parameter.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Following recent fix to no longer reschedule in the scan_block()
function, the system may become unresponsive with !PREEMPT. This patch
re-adds the cond_resched() call to scan_block() but conditioned by the
allow_resched parameter.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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