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From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] kmemleak: Report previously found leaks even after an error
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:45:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111004174548.GA16209@elliptictech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110929110239.10660.95998.stgit@e102109-lin.cambridge.arm.com>

On 2011-09-29 12:02 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> If an error fatal to kmemleak (like memory allocation failure) happens,
> kmemleak disables itself but it also removes the access to any
> previously found memory leaks. This patch allows read-only access to the
> kmemleak debugfs interface but disables any other action.
> 
> Repored-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>

Reported-by: ...

> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

Cool, I'll try this out.  Kmemleak rarely stays alive for more than a
few days on my desktop before shutting itself down due to an allocation
failure, so this should be really handy.

Cheers,
-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-04 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-29 11:02 [PATCH 0/4] Kmemleak patches for -next Catalin Marinas
2011-09-29 11:02 ` [PATCH 1/4] kmemleak: Show where early_log issues come from Catalin Marinas
2011-09-29 11:02 ` [PATCH 2/4] kmemleak: Handle percpu memory allocation Catalin Marinas
2011-09-29 11:56   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-09-29 17:17     ` Catalin Marinas
2011-09-29 17:57       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-09-29 19:28   ` Tejun Heo
2011-09-30  8:37     ` Catalin Marinas
2011-10-03 15:21     ` Catalin Marinas
2011-10-03 16:14       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-04  7:59       ` Tejun Heo
2011-10-04  9:04         ` Catalin Marinas
2011-10-04  9:13           ` Tejun Heo
2011-10-04  9:26             ` Catalin Marinas
2011-10-04 16:59               ` Tejun Heo
2011-10-04 17:06                 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-09-29 11:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] kmemleak: When the early log buffer is exceeded, report the actual number Catalin Marinas
2011-09-29 11:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] kmemleak: Report previously found leaks even after an error Catalin Marinas
2011-10-04 17:45   ` Nick Bowler [this message]
2011-10-04 20:50     ` Catalin Marinas
2011-10-04 21:14       ` Nick Bowler
2011-10-24 18:57         ` Nick Bowler

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