From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 08/11] kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:31:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081120113113.16607.59694.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081120112903.16607.68902.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
This patch adds the Kconfig.debug and Makefile entries needed for
building kmemleak into the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
---
lib/Kconfig.debug | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/Makefile | 1 +
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index b0f239e..1e59827 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -290,6 +290,29 @@ config SLUB_STATS
out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
Try running: slabinfo -DA
+config DEBUG_MEMLEAK
+ bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
+ default n
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB
+ select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
+ select DEBUG_FS
+ select STACKTRACE
+ select FRAME_POINTER
+ 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/memleak. Enabling this
+ feature will introduce an overhead to memory
+ allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
+ details.
+
+ In order to access the memleak file, debugfs needs to be
+ mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
+
config DEBUG_PREEMPT
bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index c06b45a..3e43536 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -34,3 +34,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MIGRATION) += migrate.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += allocpercpu.o
obj-$(CONFIG_QUICKLIST) += quicklist.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR) += memcontrol.o page_cgroup.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMLEAK) += memleak.o
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-20 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-20 11:30 [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 00/11] Kernel memory leak detector (updated) Catalin Marinas
2008-11-20 11:30 ` [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 01/11] kmemleak: Add the base support Catalin Marinas
2008-11-20 11:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-20 19:35 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-11-21 12:07 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-11-24 8:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-11-24 8:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-12-03 18:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-12-04 12:14 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-12-04 16:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-12-06 23:07 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-12-07 23:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-11-20 11:30 ` [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 02/11] kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector Catalin Marinas
2008-11-20 11:30 ` [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 03/11] kmemleak: Add the memory allocation/freeing hooks Catalin Marinas
2008-11-20 12:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-20 19:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-11-21 11:07 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-11-24 8:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-11-24 10:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-11-24 10:35 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-11-24 10:43 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-11-20 11:30 ` [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 04/11] kmemleak: Add modules support Catalin Marinas
2008-11-20 12:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-20 11:30 ` [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 05/11] kmemleak: Add support for i386 Catalin Marinas
2008-11-20 12:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-20 11:31 ` [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 06/11] kmemleak: Add support for ARM Catalin Marinas
2008-11-20 11:31 ` [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 07/11] kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives Catalin Marinas
2008-11-20 12:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-20 11:31 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2008-11-20 11:31 ` [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 09/11] kmemleak: Keep the __init functions after initialization Catalin Marinas
2008-11-20 11:31 ` [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 10/11] kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak Catalin Marinas
2008-11-20 12:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-20 11:31 ` [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 11/11] kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry Catalin Marinas
2008-11-20 12:10 ` [PATCH 2.6.28-rc5 00/11] Kernel memory leak detector (updated) Ingo Molnar
2008-11-20 17:54 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-11-20 12:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-20 18:10 ` Catalin Marinas
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