From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932463AbWEMQFj (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 12:05:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932464AbWEMQFj (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 12:05:39 -0400 Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.49]:17914 "EHLO mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932463AbWEMQFj (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 12:05:39 -0400 From: Catalin Marinas Subject: [RFC PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 0/6] Kernel memory leak detector Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 16:57:57 +0100 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: <20060513155757.8848.11980.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: StGIT/0.9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is the first attempt at a kernel memory leak detector based on the tracing garbage collection technique (similar to Valgrind's "memcheck --leak-check" tool). See the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file for a more detailed description. The implementation is not complete and the code might contain bugs. Only the ARM and i386 architectures are supported at the moment. Let me know what you think. Thanks. -- Catalin