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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:44:13 +0000 From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> Subject: [PATCH 12/15] kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector This patch adds the Kconfig.debug and Makefile entries needed for building kmemleak into the kernel. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/Makefile | 1 + 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index b0f239e..1e59827 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -290,6 +290,29 @@ config SLUB_STATS out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. Try running: slabinfo -DA +config DEBUG_MEMLEAK + bool "Kernel memory leak detector" + default n + depends on EXPERIMENTAL + select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB + select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB + select DEBUG_FS + select STACKTRACE + select FRAME_POINTER + select KALLSYMS + help + Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak + detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way + similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the + difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but + only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/memleak. Enabling this + feature will introduce an overhead to memory + allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more + details. + + In order to access the memleak file, debugfs needs to be + mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). + config DEBUG_PREEMPT bool "Debug preemptible kernel" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64) diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile index c06b45a..3e43536 100644 --- a/mm/Makefile +++ b/mm/Makefile @@ -34,3 +34,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MIGRATION) += migrate.o obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += allocpercpu.o obj-$(CONFIG_QUICKLIST) += quicklist.o obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR) += memcontrol.o page_cgroup.o +obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMLEAK) += memleak.o -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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