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Kernel memory leak detector 0.8
This is a new version (0.8) of the kernel memory leak detector. See the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file for a more detailed description. The patches are downloadable from (the whole patch or the broken-out series): http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/kmemleak/patch-2.6.... http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/kmemleak/patches-km... What's new in this version: - reviewers comments implemented - added support for type ids (currently approximated by sizeof) - NUMA support - reduced the memory allocation/freeing overhead by adding the pointer aliases to the radix tree only when scanning the memory - improved documentation and in-code comments To do: - more testing - more investigation into the task stacks scanning - precise type identification (after first assessing the efficiency of the current method as it requires changes to the kernel API) - (support for ioremap tracking) -- Catalin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |
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