Messages in this thread | | | Subject | [PATCH 00/15] Kernel memory leak detector | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Date | Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:26:53 +0000 |
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A new kmemleak version is available. Thanks to all who reviewed the code and gave feedback. Kmemleak can also be found on this git tree:
git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6.git kmemleak
Please note that even though I already got the ack from the slab/slob/slub maintainers, I haven't included the corresponding lines in the patch description because the patches were slightly modified to pass the GFP flags to the kmemleak callbacks. I would be grateful if you review these changes and re-acknowledge them.
Changes since the previous release:
- fatal errors for kmemleak are no longer fatal for the full system. Kmemleak can disable and clean-up after itself at run-time if such a condition occurs - re-worked locking in the memleak.c file together with documentation on how it works - kmemleak internal allocations use the GFP flags of the caller and are no longer restricted to GFP_ATOMIC - better (hopefully) comments all over the code - implemented most of the comments received so far (an important omission here is the tracking of alloc_bootmem calls since it looks a bit difficult to pair them with free_bootmem, the latter being used with reserve_bootmem or without a corresponding alloc_bootmem)
Still to do:
- run-time and boot-time configuration like task stacks scanning, disabling kmemleak, enabling/disabling the automatic scanning
Thanks for your comments.
Catalin Marinas (15): kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak kmemleak: Keep the __init functions after initialization kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives arm: Provide _sdata and __bss_stop in the vmlinux.lds.S file x86: Provide _sdata in the vmlinux_*.lds.S files kmemleak: Add modules support kmemleak: Add memleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector kmemleak: Add the base support
Documentation/kmemleak.txt | 127 ++++ MAINTAINERS | 6 arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S | 1 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S | 1 drivers/char/vt.c | 7 include/linux/init.h | 6 include/linux/memleak.h | 93 +++ include/linux/percpu.h | 5 include/linux/slab.h | 2 init/main.c | 4 kernel/module.c | 56 ++ lib/Kconfig.debug | 46 + mm/Makefile | 2 mm/memleak-test.c | 110 +++ mm/memleak.c | 1263 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/page_alloc.c | 3 mm/slab.c | 18 - mm/slob.c | 15 mm/slub.c | 5 mm/vmalloc.c | 29 + 21 files changed, 1790 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/kmemleak.txt create mode 100644 include/linux/memleak.h create mode 100644 mm/memleak-test.c create mode 100644 mm/memleak.c
-- Catalin
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