Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:56:33 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Tracing memory leaks (slabs) in 2.6.9+ kernels? |
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Justin Schoeman <justin@expertron.co.za> wrote: > > Will the slab debugger make it into the kernel as a standard compile > time option? It is a _really_ usefull tool to have around.
It has a slight downside: it unconditionally changes the type of kmem_bufctl_t to unsigned long, which wastes two or four bytes per page of slab.
I suppose we could fix that up with suitable use of CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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