From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755442AbYLKJo1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:44:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754246AbYLKJoR (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:44:17 -0500 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([193.131.176.58]:45181 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753924AbYLKJoQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:44:16 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] Kernel memory leak detector From: Catalin Marinas To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20081210182652.30323.4594.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> References: <20081210182652.30323.4594.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: ARM Ltd Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:44:08 +0000 Message-Id: <1228988648.332.5.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Dec 2008 09:44:10.0012 (UTC) FILETIME=[0469E5C0:01C95B75] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 18:26 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > A new kmemleak version is available. Thanks to all who reviewed the code > and gave feedback. Kmemleak can also be found on this git tree: > > git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6.git kmemleak [...] > Changes since the previous release: Something I forgot to mention here - I dropped the mem_map array scanning since it doesn't work in all the kernel configurations and, as Andrew Morton pointed out, it goes too deep into the kernel structures. I didn't see any false positives on ARM but it may need more testing. -- Catalin