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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/14] kmemleak: Add the base support
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> This patch adds the base support for the kernel memory leak
> detector. It traces the memory allocation/freeing in a way similar to
> the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the difference being that
> the unreferenced objects are not freed but only shown in
> /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this feature introduces an
> overhead to memory allocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Looks good to me. I have only reviewed this lightly but all my major
concerns have been addressed so feel free to add my:

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>


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