Messages in this thread | | | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 0/8] Kernel memory leak detector 0.5 | Date | Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:56:36 +0100 |
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This is a new version (0.5) of the kernel memory leak detector. It is mainly a bug-fix release after testing it with a wider range of kernel modules. See the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file for a more detailed description. The patches are downloadable from (the bundled patch or the series):
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/kmemleak/patch-2.6.17-rc5-kmemleak-0.5.bz2 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/kmemleak/patches-kmemleak-0.5.tar.bz2
What's new in this version:
- fixed panic caused by some secondary offsets in modules - removed the panic when not all aliases are found for freed pointers as the aliases list can be modified by modules insertion - following Pavel's suggestion, shortened the function names by removing "_debug"
To do:
- more testing - test Ingo's suggestion on task stacks scanning - NUMA support - (support for ioremap tracking)
Note that gcc4 cannot compile the kernels with this patch because of a bug with __builtin_constant_p (always returning true).
Any bug reports or suggestions are more than welcome as I can only test it with a limited number of kernel configurations.
Thanks.
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