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mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Wed, 9 Dec 2020 00:13:57 +0000 (16:13 -0800)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 23:24:04 +0000 (15:24 -0800)
commit98f180837a896ecedf8f7e12af22b57f271d43c9
tree68aa15a82f5e689a5c057edb6d6ab5808ea8a66f
parentb70fa3b12fc8d2b870d1ac7fd44da89271eb8705
mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory

This commit adds vmalloc() support to mem_dump_obj().  Note that the
vmalloc_dump_obj() function combines the checking and dumping, in
contrast with the split between kmem_valid_obj() and kmem_dump_obj().
The reason for the difference is that the checking in the vmalloc()
case involves acquiring a global lock, and redundant acquisitions of
global locks should be avoided, even on not-so-fast paths.

Note that this change causes on-stack variables to be reported as
vmalloc() storage from kernel_clone() or similar, depending on the degree
of inlining that your compiler does.  This is likely more helpful than
the earlier "non-paged (local) memory".

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
include/linux/vmalloc.h
mm/util.c
mm/vmalloc.c