linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] tweak kmemleak report format

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Message-ID: <CAJfuBxyjMgxR3+oAuLUK7nrM36S9MEQ67ppQTM_ibOdS4QNysQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:22:04 -0700
From:   jim.cromie@...il.com
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     catalin.marinas@....com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] tweak kmemleak report format

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 3:43 PM Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com> wrote:
>
> These 2 patches make minor changes to the report:
>
> 1st strips "age <increasing>" from output.  This makes the output
> idempotent; unchanging until a new leak is reported.
>
> 2nd adds the backtrace.checksum to the "backtrace:" line.  This lets a
> user see repeats without actually reading the whole backtrace.  So now
> the backtrace line looks like this:
>
>   backtrace (ck 603070071):

meh, in the actual patch, thats

backtrace (crc <%x format>)