SLAB: Record actual last user of freed objects.

Currently, when using CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, we put in kfree() or kmem_cache_free() as the last user of free objects, which is not very useful, so change it to the caller of those functions instead. Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
goeke · Jun 3, 2011 · a947eb9 · a947eb9
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commit a947eb9
Showing 1 changed file with 5 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3604,13 +3604,14 @@ static void cache_flusharray(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct array_cache *ac)
  * Release an obj back to its cache. If the obj has a constructed state, it must
  * be in this state _before_ it is released.  Called with disabled ints.
  */
-static inline void __cache_free(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp)
+static inline void __cache_free(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp,
+    void *caller)
 {
 	struct array_cache *ac = cpu_cache_get(cachep);
 
 	check_irq_off();
 	kmemleak_free_recursive(objp, cachep->flags);
-	objp = cache_free_debugcheck(cachep, objp, __builtin_return_address(0));
+	objp = cache_free_debugcheck(cachep, objp, caller);
 
 	kmemcheck_slab_free(cachep, objp, obj_size(cachep));
 
@@ -3801,7 +3802,7 @@ void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp)
 	debug_check_no_locks_freed(objp, obj_size(cachep));
 	if (!(cachep->flags & SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS))
 		debug_check_no_obj_freed(objp, obj_size(cachep));
-	__cache_free(cachep, objp);
+	__cache_free(cachep, objp, __builtin_return_address(0));
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 
 	trace_kmem_cache_free(_RET_IP_, objp);
@@ -3831,7 +3832,7 @@ void kfree(const void *objp)
 	c = virt_to_cache(objp);
 	debug_check_no_locks_freed(objp, obj_size(c));
 	debug_check_no_obj_freed(objp, obj_size(c));
-	__cache_free(c, (void *)objp);
+	__cache_free(c, (void *)objp, __builtin_return_address(0));
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);