This is a new version (0.2) of the kernel memory leak detector based
on the tracing garbage collection technique. See the
Documentation/kmemleak.txt file for a more detailed description. The
patches are also available from
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/kmemleak/.
Thanks to all who contributed useful suggestions for these patches.
What's new in this version:
- cleaned up the code according to the suggestions on LKML
- implemented the buffering of allocation/freeing calls before
kmemleak is properly initialised (many allocations would be missed
without this feature)
- moved the pointer leaks information from /proc/memleak to
/sys/kernel/debug/memleak (debugfs)
- the task stacks are not scanned by default because this can lead
to many false negatives
- fixed the locking and tested on SMP (ARM)
- fixed other bugs
To do:
- better testing
- better support for modules (module static variables, new pointer
aliases found in modules)
- test Ingo's suggestion on task stack scanning
- NUMA support
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