From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.35-rc6 patch] increase kmemleak robustness at boot
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:49:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C505F86.7050509@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin-9jtHP1xmhUp4uUQNZD64pN3Ee5Kn2cqH64Go@mail.gmail.com>
Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> I've consistently been experiencing kmemleak exhaust it's 400-entry
> early-boot buffer and disabling itself; there have been reports of
> this also, and I'm finding this on x86-64 with various debug options
> enabled.
>
> If we issue a warning and allow the buffer to wrap, we don't need to
> hit the kill-switch. While we lose track of some early potential
> leaks, it's better than no functionality.
>
> Let me know if it's acceptable, and many thanks for such an excellent tool,
Is it just potential leaks that we lose or can this cause false positives?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-28 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 16:40 Daniel J Blueman
2010-07-28 16:49 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2010-07-28 18:39 ` Daniel J Blueman
2010-07-29 11:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-07-29 12:48 ` Daniel J Blueman
2010-07-29 15:12 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-29 18:03 ` Daniel J Blueman
2010-07-29 18:50 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-29 20:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-07-31 9:42 ` Pekka Enberg
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