linux-kernel - Re: How to check for memory leaks

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Date:	Mon, 8 Dec 2008 23:33:27 +0100
From:	"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	"Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to check for memory leaks

2008/12/8 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>:
> What is the best way to check if there is a memory leak?
>
> If I start a ping running on my system using the rtl8187 driver, and nothing
> else active on my system, I see an increase in the "slab" value in /proc/meminfo
> of about 65 kB/minute. Is this indicative of a memory leak? When I run the same
> test with p54usb, the increase is only 20 kB/min.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry


Hi,

You could have a look on kmemleak: http://www.procode.org/kmemleak/
It's up to date version is on the arm development git branch (topic kmemleak):
http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-2.6.git;a=summary
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