linux-kernel - Re: kmemleak suggestion (long message)

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Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:07:39 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...l.by>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: kmemleak suggestion (long message)

Hi Ingo,

* Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...l.by> wrote:
>> Currently kmemleak prints info about all objects. I guess
>> sometimes kmemleak gives you more than you actually need.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Ingo Molnar<mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> It prints _a lot_ of info and spams the syslog. I lost crash info a
> few days ago due to that: by the time i inspected a crashed machine
> the tons of kmemleak output scrolled out the crash from the dmesg
> buffer.
>
> This is not acceptable.
>
> Instead it should perhaps print _at most_ a single line every few
> minutes, printing a summary about _how many_ leaked entries it
> suspects, and should offer a /debug/mm/kmemleak style of file where
> the entries can be read out from.

Yup, makes tons of sense.

                                     Pekka
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