From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759971AbZFZONS (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:13:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753948AbZFZONG (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:13:06 -0400 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([193.131.176.58]:61919 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753259AbZFZONG (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:13:06 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Kmemleak improvements on false positives To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dave Jones , Ingo Molnar , Pekka Enberg , Sergey Senozhatsky Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:12:35 +0100 Message-ID: <20090626140847.31504.79381.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> User-Agent: StGit/0.14.3.387.geb0c.dirty MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Jun 2009 14:12:36.0034 (UTC) FILETIME=[27BA9220:01C9F668] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, This set of patches are aimed at reducing the amount of false positives and the verbosity of the kmemleak reports. The task stack scanning is no enabled by default but this can be disabled at run-time with a risk of more false positives. I haven't looked into Sergey's function filtering patch yet. Thanks for your comments. Catalin Marinas (4): kmemleak: Slightly change the policy on newly allocated objects kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak file kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning thread kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default Documentation/kmemleak.txt | 19 ++++-- mm/kmemleak.c | 144 +++++++++++++++++--------------------------- 2 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-) -- Catalin