From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: kmemleak: fix stale statements about scanning
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:11:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aq0AOiEyi635ARKm@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260917-b4-kmemleak-doc-v1-2-84fde6d1f749@debian.org>
On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 06:47:36AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> Three statements in the "false positives/negatives" and "Limitations"
> sections have never matched the code:
>
> - task stack scanning is on by default (kmemleak_stack_scan = 1), as
> the parameter list earlier in the same document already states;
>
> - MSECS_MIN_AGE has been 5000, not 1000, since the initial commit;
>
> - scanning is done by a periodic kthread. Reading the debugfs file
> only lists what the last scan found; kmemleak_open() calls
> seq_open() and never scans.
>
> Fixes: 04f70336c80c ("kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector")
> Fixes: e0a2a1601bec ("kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default")
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-18 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-17 13:47 [PATCH 0/3] kmemleak: fix stale documentation and raise the verbose default Breno Leitao
2026-09-17 13:47 ` [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: kmemleak: describe the metadata pool, not the early log Breno Leitao
2026-09-18 9:10 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-09-17 13:47 ` [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: kmemleak: fix stale statements about scanning Breno Leitao
2026-09-18 9:11 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2026-09-17 13:47 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: kmemleak: raise min_unref_scans to 3 for verbose auto-scan Breno Leitao
2026-09-17 22:04 ` Andrew Morton
2026-09-18 9:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-09-18 10:20 ` Breno Leitao
2026-09-18 9:21 ` Catalin Marinas
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