linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update kmemleak architecture support info

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Message-Id: <20110610131838.43cc5247.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:18:38 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Maxin B John <maxin.john@...il.com>
Cc:	catalin.marinas@....com, dbaluta@...acom.com,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update kmemleak architecture support
 info

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:09:56 +0300 Maxin B John wrote:

> >> I think Daniel's suggestion is better, we don't have to worry about
> >> changing the documentation every time we add a new architecture.
> I agree with that.
> 
> > Please send an updated patch without the currently-supported list
> > of architectures.
> Please find the updated patch below: 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.

> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
> index 090e6ee..51063e6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
> @@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ with the difference that the orphan objects are not freed but only
>  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.
> +
> +Please check DEBUG_KMEMLEAK dependencies in lib/Kconfig.debug for supported
> +architectures.
>  
>  Usage
>  -----
> 
> --


---
~Randy
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