Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 5/13/06, Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> 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 orphan
>> pointers are not freed but only shown in /proc/memleak. Enabling this
>> feature would introduce an overhead to memory allocations.
>
> Hmm. How much is the overhead anyway?
An additional note - the patch can be addapted so that the
allocated/freed pointers are only added to a list and a background
thread updates the radix tree at a later time. With this approach, the
overhead to the memory allocations would be relatively small.
Catalin
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