From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751221AbWFFWT2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 18:19:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751231AbWFFWT2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 18:19:28 -0400 Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.49]:29253 "EHLO mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751221AbWFFWT1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2006 18:19:27 -0400 From: Catalin Marinas Subject: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6 0/8] Kernel memory leak detector 0.6 Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:18:25 +0100 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: <20060606221825.23913.43029.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: StGIT/0.9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a new version (0.6) of the kernel memory leak detector. 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-rc6-kmemleak-0.6.bz2 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/kmemleak/patches-kmemleak-0.6.tar.bz2 What's new in this version: - fixed SMP locking (hopefully the last) - added support for padded objects (allocated pointer different from the object one) - fixed two false positives caused by padding To do: - more testing - test Ingo's suggestion on task stacks scanning - NUMA support - (support for ioremap tracking) -- Catalin