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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h | 23 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h index 01ee40f11f3a..76234a14b97d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/cpumask.h> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h> #include <linux/percpu.h> struct vmemmap_backing { @@ -83,6 +84,13 @@ static inline pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm) pgd = kmem_cache_alloc(PGT_CACHE(PGD_INDEX_SIZE), pgtable_gfp_flags(mm, GFP_KERNEL)); /* + * Don't scan the PGD for pointers, it contains references to PUDs but + * those references are not full pointers and so can't be recognised by + * kmemleak. + */ + kmemleak_no_scan(pgd); + + /* * With hugetlb, we don't clear the second half of the page table. * If we share the same slab cache with the pmd or pud level table, * we need to make sure we zero out the full table on alloc. @@ -110,8 +118,19 @@ static inline void pgd_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd, pud_t *pud) static inline pud_t *pud_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) { - return kmem_cache_alloc(PGT_CACHE(PUD_CACHE_INDEX), - pgtable_gfp_flags(mm, GFP_KERNEL)); + pud_t *pud; + + pud = kmem_cache_alloc(PGT_CACHE(PUD_CACHE_INDEX), + pgtable_gfp_flags(mm, GFP_KERNEL)); + /* + * Tell kmemleak to ignore the PUD, that means don't scan it for + * pointers and don't consider it a leak. PUDs are typically only + * referred to by their PGD, but kmemleak is not able to recognise those + * as pointers, leading to false leak reports. + */ + kmemleak_ignore(pud); + + return pud; } static inline void pud_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud) |