Add additional description on:
- why warning is produced in case if slab is ready
- why kmemleak_alloc is called for each allocated memory block

Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <[email protected]>
---

It's additional change on top of the memblock series 
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/9/715

 mm/memblock.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
index d03d50a..974f0d3 100644
--- a/mm/memblock.c
+++ b/mm/memblock.c
@@ -985,6 +985,11 @@ static void * __init memblock_virt_alloc_internal(
                pr_warn("%s: usage of MAX_NUMNODES is depricated. Use 
NUMA_NO_NODE\n",
                        __func__);
 
+       /*
+        * Detect any accidental use of these APIs after slab is ready, as at
+        * this moment memblock may be deinitialized already and its
+        * internal data may be destroyed (after execution of free_all_bootmem)
+        */
        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(slab_is_available()))
                return kzalloc_node(size, GFP_NOWAIT, nid);
 
@@ -1021,7 +1026,9 @@ done:
 
        /*
         * The min_count is set to 0 so that bootmem allocated blocks
-        * are never reported as leaks.
+        * are never reported as leaks. This is because many of these blocks
+        * are only referred via the physical address which is not
+        * looked up by kmemleak.
         */
        kmemleak_alloc(ptr, size, 0, 0);
 
-- 
1.7.9.5

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