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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-11 14:15:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-11 14:15:57 -0700
commit512626a04e72aca60effe111fa0333ed0b195d21 (patch)
treec22e23b0dcc2dd2ff5a9a96a007de6799e9223de /lib
parent8a1ca8cedd108c8e76a6ab34079d0bbb4f244799 (diff)
parent3aa27bbe7a6536d1ec859d3a97caf3319b5081b7 (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives kmemleak: Add modules support kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector kmemleak: Add the base support Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in: drivers/char/vt.c init/main.c mm/slab.c
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug32
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 6cdcf38f2da9..116a35051be6 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -336,6 +336,38 @@ config SLUB_STATS
out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
Try running: slabinfo -DA
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM) && \
+ !MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+ select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB
+ select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
+ select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
+ select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
+ 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/kmemleak. Enabling this
+ feature will introduce an overhead to memory
+ allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
+ details.
+
+ In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
+ mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
+
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
+ tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
+ depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ help
+ Say Y or M here to build a test for the kernel memory leak
+ detector. This option enables a module that explicitly leaks
+ memory.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config DEBUG_PREEMPT
bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)