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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 0/7] Kernel memory leak detector 0.3
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 14:50:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060530135016.21491.34817.stgit@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

This is a new version (0.3) of the kernel memory leak detector. See
the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file for a more detailed
description. The patches are also available from
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/kmemleak/ (to be uploaded
shortly).

What's new in this version:

- more clean-up
- initial kernel modules support. It scans the data sections in a
  module while ignoring the text areas
- minor optimisation to avoid radix-tree lookup when updating
  the pointer information
- DEBUG_FS selected automatically (until/if a different method of
  triggering the memory scanning is implemented)

To do:

- better testing
- support for pointer aliases in kernel modules (i.e. container_of
  usage in modules)
- test Ingo's suggestion on task stacks scanning
- NUMA support

-- 
Catalin

             reply	other threads:[~2006-05-30 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-30 13:50 Catalin Marinas [this message]
2006-05-30 14:07 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 1/7] Base support for kmemleak Catalin Marinas
2006-05-30 14:07 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 2/7] Some documentation " Catalin Marinas
2006-05-30 14:07 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 3/7] Add the memory allocation/freeing hooks " Catalin Marinas
2006-05-30 14:07 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 4/7] Add kmemleak support for i386 Catalin Marinas
2006-05-30 14:07 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 5/7] Add kmemleak support for ARM Catalin Marinas
2006-05-30 14:07 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 6/7] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives Catalin Marinas
2006-05-30 14:07 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 7/7] Simple testing for kmemleak Catalin Marinas
2006-05-30 14:17 ` [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 0/7] Kernel memory leak detector 0.3 Catalin Marinas

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