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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 77e0d8b1b7c5..43173c4e0ade 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -340,8 +340,6 @@ 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 @@ -355,9 +353,24 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more details. + Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances + of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. + In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE + int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + range 200 2000 + default 400 + help + Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid + reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or + freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is + used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log + buffer exceeded", please increase this value. + config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK |