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SubjectRe: kmemleak suggestion (long message)
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Hi Ingo,

* Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by> wrote:
>> Currently kmemleak prints info about all objects. I guess
>> sometimes kmemleak gives you more than you actually need.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Ingo Molnar<mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> It prints _a lot_ of info and spams the syslog. I lost crash info a
> few days ago due to that: by the time i inspected a crashed machine
> the tons of kmemleak output scrolled out the crash from the dmesg
> buffer.
>
> This is not acceptable.
>
> Instead it should perhaps print _at most_ a single line every few
> minutes, printing a summary about _how many_ leaked entries it
> suspects, and should offer a /debug/mm/kmemleak style of file where
> the entries can be read out from.

Yup, makes tons of sense.

Pekka


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