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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 12/14] kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:42:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090424164205.4476.9856.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090424163500.4476.62146.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>

This patch adds the Kconfig.debug and Makefile entries needed for
building kmemleak into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
---
 lib/Kconfig.debug |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/Makefile       |    1 +
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index c6e854f..6c9d21f 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -336,6 +336,28 @@ config SLUB_STATS
 	  out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
 	  Try running: slabinfo -DA
 
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+	bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
+	default n
+	depends on 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_PREEMPT
 	bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index ec73c68..cb84a02 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += allocpercpu.o
 endif
 obj-$(CONFIG_QUICKLIST) += quicklist.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR) += memcontrol.o page_cgroup.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK) += kmemleak.o


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-24 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-24 16:40 [PATCH 00/14] Kernel memory leak detector Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:41 ` [PATCH 01/14] kmemleak: Add the base support Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:41 ` [PATCH 02/14] kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:41 ` [PATCH 03/14] kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:41 ` [PATCH 04/14] kmemleak: Add the slob " Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:41 ` [PATCH 05/14] kmemleak: Add the slub " Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:41 ` [PATCH 06/14] kmemleak: Add the vmalloc " Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:41 ` [PATCH 07/14] kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:41 ` [PATCH 08/14] kmemleak: Add modules support Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:41 ` [PATCH 09/14] x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux_*.lds.S files Catalin Marinas
2009-04-26 11:13   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-24 16:41 ` [PATCH 10/14] arm: Provide _sdata and __bss_stop in the vmlinux.lds.S file Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:42 ` [PATCH 11/14] kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:42 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2009-04-24 23:02   ` [PATCH 12/14] kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector David Rientjes
2009-04-27 11:19     ` Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:42 ` [PATCH 13/14] kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak Catalin Marinas
2009-04-24 16:42 ` [PATCH 14/14] kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry Catalin Marinas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-19 18:12 [PATCH 00/14] Kernel memory leak detector Catalin Marinas
2008-12-19 18:14 ` [PATCH 12/14] kmemleak: Enable the building of the " Catalin Marinas

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