mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory

This commit adds vmalloc() support to mem_dump_obj().  Note that the
vmalloc_dump_obj() function combines the checking and dumping, in
contrast with the split between kmem_valid_obj() and kmem_dump_obj().
The reason for the difference is that the checking in the vmalloc()
case involves acquiring a global lock, and redundant acquisitions of
global locks should be avoided, even on not-so-fast paths.

Note that this change causes on-stack variables to be reported as
vmalloc() storage from kernel_clone() or similar, depending on the degree
of inlining that your compiler does.  This is likely more helpful than
the earlier "non-paged (local) memory".

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 80c0181c411d..c18f4751a704 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -246,4 +246,10 @@ pcpu_free_vm_areas(struct vm_struct **vms, int nr_vms)
 int register_vmap_purge_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
 int unregister_vmap_purge_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
+bool vmalloc_dump_obj(void *object);
+#else
+static inline bool vmalloc_dump_obj(void *object) { return false; }
+#endif
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_VMALLOC_H */