kmalloc allocates physically contiguous memory and
may fail for larger allocations due to fragmentation.
The large allocations are caused by the fact that the
scatterlist structure is 24 bytes and the array size
is proportional to the number of pages being mapped.
The tools that process cff dumps expect a linear
memory region, but the start address of that region can
be configured. As long as there is only a single
pagetable (so that there aren't duplicate virtual
addresses in the dump), dumps captured with the
mmu on are easier to deal with than reconfiguring
to turn the mmu off.
Make the framework for reporting per-process memory statistics a little bit
more generic. This should make it easier to keep track of more external
memory sources as they are added.
Certain memory allocations are not properly tracked by kmemleak tool,
which makes it to incorrectly detect memory leak. Notify the tool by using
kmemleak_not_leak() to ignore the memory allocation so that incorrect leaks
report are avoided.
SecureCRT
Shantanu Gupta
tytung