From: Catalin Marinas Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:24:13 +0000 (+0100) Subject: kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3bba00d7bdd57cb7aa739b751fa0a1fbbb04dc18;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal7580.git kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector This patch adds the Kconfig.debug and Makefile entries needed for building kmemleak into the kernel. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas --- diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 6cdcf38f2da..5cc3506574e 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -336,6 +336,28 @@ config SLUB_STATS out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. Try running: slabinfo -DA +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + bool "Kernel memory leak detector" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM) && \ + !MEMORY_HOTPLUG + select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB + select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB + select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS + select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT + select KALLSYMS + help + Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak + detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way + similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the + difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but + only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this + feature will introduce an overhead to memory + allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more + details. + + In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be + mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). + config DEBUG_PREEMPT bool "Debug preemptible kernel" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64) diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile index ec73c68b601..cb84a025fdb 100644 --- a/mm/Makefile +++ b/mm/Makefile @@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += allocpercpu.o endif obj-$(CONFIG_QUICKLIST) += quicklist.o obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR) += memcontrol.o page_cgroup.o +obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK) += kmemleak.o