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Message-ID: <84144f020812191208x66f26bc9tf087b35b6c90662a@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:08:34 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] kmemleak: Add the base support

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
> This patch adds the base support for the kernel memory leak
> detector. It traces the memory allocation/freeing in a way similar to
> the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the difference being that
> the unreferenced objects are not freed but only shown in
> /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this feature introduces an
> overhead to memory allocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Looks good to me. I have only reviewed this lightly but all my major
concerns have been addressed so feel free to add my:

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
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