linux-kernel - [PATCH 12/14] kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector

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Message-ID: <20090424164205.4476.9856.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:42:05 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 12/14] 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>
---
 lib/Kconfig.debug |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/Makefile       |    1 +
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index c6e854f..6c9d21f 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -336,6 +336,28 @@ config SLUB_STATS
 	  out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
 	  Try running: slabinfo -DA
 
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+	bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
+	default n
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM) && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+	select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB
+	select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
+	select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
+	select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
+	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/kmemleak. Enabling this
+	  feature will introduce an overhead to memory
+	  allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
+	  details.
+
+	  In order to access the kmemleak 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 ec73c68..cb84a02 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += allocpercpu.o
 endif
 obj-$(CONFIG_QUICKLIST) += quicklist.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR) += memcontrol.o page_cgroup.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK) += kmemleak.o

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