Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: Track no early_pgtable_alloc() for kmemleak

[Catalin Marinas]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 11:05:09AM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> After switched page size from 64KB to 4KB on several arm64 servers here,
> kmemleak starts to run out of early memory pool due to a huge number of
> those early_pgtable_alloc() calls:
> 
>   kmemleak_alloc_phys()
>   memblock_alloc_range_nid()
>   memblock_phys_alloc_range()
>   early_pgtable_alloc()
>   init_pmd()
>   alloc_init_pud()
>   __create_pgd_mapping()
>   __map_memblock()
>   paging_init()
>   setup_arch()
>   start_kernel()
> 
> Increased the default value of DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE by 4 times
> won't be enough for a server with 200GB+ memory. There isn't much
> interesting to check memory leaks for those early page tables and those
> early memory mappings should not reference to other memory. Hence, no
> kmemleak false positives, and we can safely skip tracking those early
> allocations from kmemleak like we did in the commit fed84c785270
> ("mm/memblock.c: skip kmemleak for kasan_init()") without needing to
> introduce complications to automatically scale the value depends on the
> runtime memory size etc. After the patch, the default value of
> DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE becomes sufficient again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>