From acf4968ec9dea49387ca8b3d36dfaa0850bdb2d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Catalin Marinas Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:38:29 +0100 Subject: kmemleak: Slightly change the policy on newly allocated objects Newly allocated objects are more likely to be reported as false positives. Kmemleak ignores the reporting of objects younger than 5 seconds. However, this age was calculated after the memory scanning completed which usually takes longer than 5 seconds. This patch make the minimum object age calculation in relation to the start of the memory scanning. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas --- mm/kmemleak.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c index e96e0ec6a56e..c37e8e50e4de 100644 --- a/mm/kmemleak.c +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c @@ -190,7 +190,9 @@ static unsigned long max_addr; static unsigned long next_scan_yield; static struct task_struct *scan_thread; static unsigned long jiffies_scan_yield; +/* used to avoid reporting of recently allocated objects */ static unsigned long jiffies_min_age; +static unsigned long jiffies_last_scan; /* delay between automatic memory scannings */ static signed long jiffies_scan_wait; /* enables or disables the task stacks scanning */ @@ -284,7 +286,8 @@ static int color_gray(const struct kmemleak_object *object) static int unreferenced_object(struct kmemleak_object *object) { return (object->flags & OBJECT_ALLOCATED) && color_white(object) && - time_is_before_eq_jiffies(object->jiffies + jiffies_min_age); + time_before_eq(object->jiffies + jiffies_min_age, + jiffies_last_scan); } /* @@ -927,6 +930,8 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void) int i; int new_leaks = 0; + jiffies_last_scan = jiffies; + /* prepare the kmemleak_object's */ rcu_read_lock(); list_for_each_entry_rcu(object, &object_list, object_list) { -- cgit v1.2.2