When a process allocates a hugepage, the following leak is
reported by kmemleak. This is a false positive which is
due to the pointer to the table being stored in the PGD
as physical memory address and not virtual memory pointer.
unreferenced object 0xc30f8200 (size 512):
comm "mmap", pid 374, jiffies 4872494 (age 627.630s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<e32b68da>] huge_pte_alloc+0xdc/0x1f8
[<9e0df1e1>] hugetlb_fault+0x560/0x8f8
[<7938ec6c>] follow_hugetlb_page+0x14c/0x44c
[<afbdb405>] __get_user_pages+0x1c4/0x3dc
[<b8fd7cd9>] __mm_populate+0xac/0x140
[<3215421e>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0xb4/0xb8
[<c148db69>] ksys_mmap_pgoff+0xcc/0x1fc
[<4fcd760f>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38
See commit a984506c54 ("powerpc/mm: Don't report PUDs as
memory leaks when using kmemleak") for detailed explanation.
To fix that, this patch tells kmemleak to ignore the allocated
hugepage table.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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