On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:23:33 +0100 Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> wrote:
> Add mempool allocations for struct kmemleak_object and > kmemleak_scan_area as slightly more resilient than kmem_cache_alloc() > under memory pressure. Additionally, mask out all the gfp flags passed > to kmemleak other than GFP_KERNEL|GFP_ATOMIC. > > A boot-time tuning parameter (kmemleak.mempool) is added to allow a > different minimum pool size (defaulting to NR_CPUS * 4). Why would anyone ever want to alter this? Is there some particular misbehaviour which this will improve? If so, what is it? > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > @@ -2011,6 +2011,12 @@ > Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, > the default is off. > > + kmemleak.mempool= > + [KNL] Boot-time tuning of the minimum kmemleak > + metadata pool size. > + Format: <int> > + Default: NR_CPUS * 4 > + This is the only documentation we provide people and it doesn't really explain anything at all. IOW, can we do a better job of explaining all this to the target audience? Why does the min size need to be tunable anyway?
