linux-kernel - Re: kmemleak suggestion (long message)

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Message-Id: <1246004879.27533.18.camel@penberg-laptop>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:27:59 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...l.by>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: kmemleak suggestion (long message)

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 09:25 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> BTW, this was questioned in the past as well - do we still need the
> automatic scanning from a kernel thread? Can a user cron job just read
> the kmemleak file?

I think the kernel thread makes sense so that we get an early warning in
syslog. Ingo, what's your take on this from autoqa point of view?

			Pekka

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