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

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Message-ID: <20090626091316.GD3451@localdomain.by>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:13:17 +0300
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...l.by>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"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 (06/26/09 09:54), Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > Well, we just move 'spam' out of syslog. Not dealing with 'spam' itself.
> > I'm not sure about 'filtering in userspace when you read'. Suppose I use
> > 'tail -f /debug/mm/kmemleak'. How can I easy suppress printing of (for example):
> 
> I don't have a strong opinion on this patch at the moment, I'll have a
> look later today.
>
Well, take a look please. 
I find it (suggested mechanism) to be useful. 

> > Or any report with tty_ldisc_try_get (ppp generates tons of them).
> 
> BTW, that's a real leak IMHO (posted a patch yesterday in reply to the
> initial report to Alan Cox).
>
I'll try to find link to see it. Since tty_ldisc_try_get reports started
to 'annoy' me.
 
> -- 
> Catalin
> 

	Sergey
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