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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 0/8] Kernel memory leak detector 0.5
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:56:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060604215636.16277.15454.stgit@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

This is a new version (0.5) of the kernel memory leak detector. It is
mainly a bug-fix release after testing it with a wider range of kernel
modules. See the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file for a more detailed
description. The patches are downloadable from (the bundled patch or
the series):

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/kmemleak/patch-2.6.17-rc5-kmemleak-0.5.bz2
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/kmemleak/patches-kmemleak-0.5.tar.bz2

What's new in this version:

- fixed panic caused by some secondary offsets in modules
- removed the panic when not all aliases are found for freed pointers
  as the aliases list can be modified by modules insertion
- following Pavel's suggestion, shortened the function names by
  removing "_debug"

To do:

- more testing
- test Ingo's suggestion on task stacks scanning
- NUMA support
- (support for ioremap tracking)

Note that gcc4 cannot compile the kernels with this patch because of a
bug with __builtin_constant_p (always returning true).

Any bug reports or suggestions are more than welcome as I can only
test it with a limited number of kernel configurations.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin

             reply	other threads:[~2006-06-04 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-04 21:56 Catalin Marinas [this message]
2006-06-04 21:59 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 1/8] Base support for kmemleak Catalin Marinas
2006-06-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 2/8] Some documentation " Catalin Marinas
2006-06-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 3/8] Add the memory allocation/freeing hooks " Catalin Marinas
2006-06-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 4/8] Modules support " Catalin Marinas
2006-06-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 5/8] Add kmemleak support for i386 Catalin Marinas
2006-06-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 6/8] Add kmemleak support for ARM Catalin Marinas
2006-06-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 7/8] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives Catalin Marinas
2006-06-04 22:00 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 8/8] Simple testing for kmemleak Catalin Marinas
2006-06-05 21:52 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 0/8] Kernel memory leak detector 0.5 Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-06  8:25   ` Catalin Marinas
2006-06-07  1:08     ` Keith Owens
2006-06-06  8:47   ` Catalin Marinas
2006-06-06 10:46   ` Catalin Marinas
2006-06-06 15:50     ` Michal Piotrowski
2006-06-06 15:59       ` Catalin Marinas

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