kmemleak: Handle percpu memory allocation
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:12:53 +0000 (17:12 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fri, 2 Dec 2011 16:12:42 +0000 (16:12 +0000)
This patch adds kmemleak callbacks from the percpu allocator, reducing a
number of false positives caused by kmemleak not scanning such memory
blocks. The percpu chunks are never reported as leaks because of current
kmemleak limitations with the __percpu pointer not pointing directly to
the actual chunks.

Reported-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li.lee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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