lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2006]   [Dec]   [17]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.13
On 17/12/06, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> it would also be nice to have more information than this:
>
> unreferenced object 0xf76f5af8 (size 512):
> [<c0191f23>] memleak_alloc
> [<c018eeaa>] kmem_cache_zalloc
> [<c03277a7>] probe_hwif
> [<c032870c>] probe_hwif_init_with_fixup
> [<c032aea1>] ide_setup_pci_device
> [<c0312564>] amd74xx_probe
> [<c069c4b4>] ide_scan_pcidev
> [<c069c505>] ide_scan_pcibus
> [<c069bdca>] ide_init
> [<c0100532>] init
> [<c0105da3>] kernel_thread_helper
> [<ffffffff>]

BTW, I think there is a call to kzalloc in probe_hwif and it is
optimised to do a kmem_cache_zalloc in include/linux/slab_def.h. The
latest kmemleak-0.13 ifdef's out this optimisation because the size
information gets lost otherwise. The slab.h file was already patched
for this in 2.6.19 but its content was moved to slab_def.h in
2.6.20-rc1.

> it would be nice to record 1) the jiffies value at the time of
> allocation, 2) the PID and the comm of the task that did the allocation.
> The jiffies timestamp would be useful to see the age of the allocation,
> and the PID/comm is useful for context.

I'll add them. Thanks.

--
Catalin
-
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/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2006-12-17 13:07    [W:0.051 / U:2.436 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site