[PATCH] kmemleak: Ignore the aperture memory hole on x86_64

[Catalin Marinas]

This block is allocated with alloc_bootmem() and scanned by kmemleak but
the kernel direct mapping may no longer exist. This patch tells kmemleak
to ignore this memory hole.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
index 676debf..cb690b3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
@@ -94,6 +94,11 @@ static u32 __init allocate_aperture(void)
 	 * code for safe
 	 */
 	p = __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(aper_size, aper_size, 512ULL<<20);
+	/*
+	 * Kmemleak should not scan this block as it may not be mapped via the
+	 * kernel direct mapping.
+	 */
+	kmemleak_ignore(p);
 	if (!p || __pa(p)+aper_size > 0xffffffff) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR
 			"Cannot allocate aperture memory hole (%p,%uK)\n",


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