linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/8] Documentation: update kmemleak arch. info

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Date:	Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:58:03 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@...acom.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/8] Documentation: update kmemleak arch. info

From: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@...acom.com>

Besides x86 and arm, kmemleak now supports powerpc, sparc, sh,
microblaze and tile.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@...acom.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
---
 Documentation/kmemleak.txt |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.38-git18.orig/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
+++ linux-2.6.38-git18/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ with the difference that the orphan obje
 reported via /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. A similar method is used by the
 Valgrind tool (memcheck --leak-check) to detect the memory leaks in
 user-space applications.
+Kmemleak is supported on x86, arm, powerpc, sparc, sh, microblaze and tile.
 
 Usage
 -----
@@ -178,5 +179,4 @@ block doesn't need to be freed (some cas
 the pointer is calculated by other methods than the usual container_of
 macro or the pointer is stored in a location not scanned by kmemleak.
 
-Page allocations and ioremap are not tracked. Only the ARM and x86
-architectures are currently supported.
+Page allocations and ioremap are not tracked.
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