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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-11 23:15:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-11 23:15:57 +0200 |
| commit | 512626a04e72aca60effe111fa0333ed0b195d21 (patch) | |
| tree | c22e23b0dcc2dd2ff5a9a96a007de6799e9223de /lib | |
| parent | Merge branch 'perfcounters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/k... (diff) | |
| parent | kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry (diff) | |
| download | linux-512626a04e72aca60effe111fa0333ed0b195d21.tar.xz linux-512626a04e72aca60effe111fa0333ed0b195d21.zip | |
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry
kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak
kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
kmemleak: Add modules support
kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash
kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector
kmemleak: Add the base support
Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in:
drivers/char/vt.c
init/main.c
mm/slab.c
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 32 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 6cdcf38f2da9..116a35051be6 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -336,6 +336,38 @@ config SLUB_STATS out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. Try running: slabinfo -DA +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + bool "Kernel memory leak detector" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM) && \ + !MEMORY_HOTPLUG + select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB + select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB + select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS + select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT + select KALLSYMS + help + Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak + detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way + similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the + difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but + only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this + feature will introduce an overhead to memory + allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more + details. + + In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be + mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST + tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + help + Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak + detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks + memory. + + If unsure, say N. + config DEBUG_PREEMPT bool "Debug preemptible kernel" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64) |