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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1205090925420.1879@tux.localdomain> Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 09:27:28 +0300 (EEST) From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org> To: Anbu Manikandan <canbumanikandan@...il.com> cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kmemleak feature On Tue, 8 May 2012, Anbu Manikandan wrote: > I am very much interested in learning about kmemleak feature in linux > 3.0-RT kernel. > I have already read the kmemleak document (Documentation/kmemleak.txt) > provided in the kernel source. > > Furthermore, I would like to understand the internal functionality of > kmemleak source code. > Could you please share some documents, links or presentations to > understand the kmemleak internal functionality? Catalin is the main author of kmemleak. I'm not aware of such presentations. > One more thing, I have tried kmemleak test module in an ARM Target > board(CortexA9 SMP Dual core Board) with 3.0-RT kernel and found that > memory leak entries are not properly shown in > sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file. > Instead of getting 25 memory leak entries in > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file, I have got only 5 memory leaks > entries. > May be the other memory leaks are called as false negatives as per the > kmemleak document. > Please suggest some way to overcome this problem. I'm CC'ing LKML. Pekka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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