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Subject[PATCH v3 0/5] kmemleak: few small cleanups and clear command support
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Here is my third respin, this time rebased ontop of:

git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6 kmemleak

As suggested by Catalin we now clear the list by only painting reported
unreferenced objects and the color we use is grey to ensure future
scans are possible on these same objects to account for new allocations
in the future referenced on the cleared objects.

Patch 3 is now a little different, now with a paint_ptr() and
a __paint_it() helper.

I tested this by clearing kmemleak after bootup, then writing my
own buggy module which kmalloc()'d onto some internal pointer,
scanned, unloaded, and scanned again and then saw a new shiny
report come up:

unreferenced object 0xffff88003ad70920 (size 16):
comm "insmod", pid 7449, jiffies 4296458482
hex dump (first 16 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff814e9d55>] kmemleak_alloc+0x25/0x60
[<ffffffff81118c3b>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x14b/0x1c0
[<ffffffffa000a07f>] 0xffffffffa000a07f
[<ffffffff8100a047>] do_one_initcall+0x37/0x1a0
[<ffffffff810950d9>] sys_init_module+0xd9/0x230
[<ffffffff81011f02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Luis R. Rodriguez (5):
kmemleak: use bool for true/false questions
kmemleak: add clear command support
kmemleak: move common painting code together
kmemleak: fix sparse warning over overshadowed flags
kmemleak: fix sparse warning for static declarations

Documentation/kmemleak.txt | 30 +++++++++++
mm/kmemleak.c | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
2 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)



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