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

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Message-Id: <1240831184.7027.74.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:19:43 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak
	detector

On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 00:02 +0100, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> This should include DEBUG_KERNEL.

Yes, it makes sense. I'll update the patch.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin

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