Messages in this thread | | | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 0/7] Kernel memory leak detector 0.2 | Date | Sat, 27 May 2006 13:07:09 +0100 |
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This is a new version (0.2) of the kernel memory leak detector based on the tracing garbage collection technique. See the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file for a more detailed description. The patches are also available from http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/kmemleak/.
Thanks to all who contributed useful suggestions for these patches.
What's new in this version:
- cleaned up the code according to the suggestions on LKML - implemented the buffering of allocation/freeing calls before kmemleak is properly initialised (many allocations would be missed without this feature) - moved the pointer leaks information from /proc/memleak to /sys/kernel/debug/memleak (debugfs) - the task stacks are not scanned by default because this can lead to many false negatives - fixed the locking and tested on SMP (ARM) - fixed other bugs
To do:
- better testing - better support for modules (module static variables, new pointer aliases found in modules) - test Ingo's suggestion on task stack scanning - NUMA support
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