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| author | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2009-06-11 14:22:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2009-06-11 18:03:28 +0200 |
| commit | 3c7b4e6b8be4c16f1e6e5c558e33b7ff0db2dfaf (patch) | |
| tree | 3722fc5220bf8d611def5618758b05160ff05312 /Documentation/kmemleak.txt | |
| parent | Merge branch 'tracing-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux... (diff) | |
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kmemleak: Add the base support
This patch adds the base support for the kernel memory leak
detector. It traces the memory allocation/freeing in a way similar to
the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the difference being that
the unreferenced objects are not freed but only shown in
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this feature introduces an
overhead to memory allocations.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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