From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262806AbVGHXzE (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:55:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262817AbVGHXzE (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:55:04 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:15821 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262806AbVGHXzC (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:55:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:55:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Alexander Nyberg Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch for slab leak debugging Message-Id: <20050708165554.4b958087.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1120856219.25294.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1120856219.25294.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alexander Nyberg wrote: > > I think we really need an option in the kernel to help users in tracking > slab leaks so that they can be brought down easier. Well we already have slab-leak-detector.patch, whcih I appear to have been sitting on since 2.6.0-test8. it fell out of -mm after 2.6.12-rc5-mm2 due to various ravaging of slab.c, but could be brought back. pc/2.6.12-rc5-mm2-series:slab-leak-detector.patch pc/2.6.12-rc5-mm2-series:slab-leak-detector-warning-fixes.patch