linux-kernel - Re: How to test kernel drivers for memory leaks

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimqfHEYyErLiWfrW5SkjseTvcswoPOP2Jkab1pC@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:25:12 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@....com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: Re: How to test kernel drivers for memory leaks

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@....com> wrote:
>       I would like to analyze the driver sources for a Ralink RT3070STA USB wifi module for memory leaks, using linux kernel 2.6.32, running on a TI OMAP 3503 platform target.
>
> Which tool (open-source or commercial) is best suited for this task?

Kmemleak is an in-kernel memory leak detector. See
Documentation/kmemleak.txt for details.
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