kmemleak: allow freeing internal objects after kmemleak was disabled
Currently if kmemleak is disabled, the kmemleak objects can never be
freed, no matter if it's disabled by a user or due to fatal errors.
Those objects can be a big waste of memory.
OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME
1200264 1197433 99% 0.30K 46164 26 369312K kmemleak_object
With this patch, after kmemleak was disabled you can reclaim memory
with:
# echo clear > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
Also inform users about this with a printk.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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