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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


  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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