Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:15:42 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/15] kmemleak: Add the base support |
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:44:56AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 11:36 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:26:59PM +0000, Catalin Marinas 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/memleak. Enabling this feature introduces an > > > overhead to memory allocations. > > > > Looks good to me from an RCU viewpoint! > > > > Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Thanks for reviewing it. > > FYI, in the version I'm going to post this week I added another mutex to > ensure the exclusive opening of the /sys/kernel/debug/memleak file as > one can now use this file to configure kmemleak at run-time. The RCU > locking isn't affected and I'll add your "Reviewed-by:" line.
Fair enough!
Thanx, Paul
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