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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/15] kmemleak: Add the base support
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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