Catalin Marinas wrote:
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> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 09:27 +0100, Zeno Davatz wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> I am attaching you the file from /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
>>> Zeno, can you post your dmesg and .config, please?
>> Sure, see attached files.
> 
> It looks like NO_BOOTMEM is enabled. You can try the attached patch (I
> need to post it again on the list).
> 
> 
> kmemleak: Add support for NO_BOOTMEM configurations
> 
> From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> 
> With commits 08677214 and 59be5a8e, alloc_bootmem()/free_bootmem() and
> friends use the early_res functions for memory management when
> NO_BOOTMEM is enabled. This patch adds the kmemleak calls in the
> corresponding code paths for bootmem allocations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Makes sense.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

Zeno, this should fix the kmemleak false positives but not the big 
pauses you're seeing.
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