kmemleak: Add the base support
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:22:39 +0000 (13:22 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:03:28 +0000 (17:03 +0100)
commit3c7b4e6b8be4c16f1e6e5c558e33b7ff0db2dfaf
tree3722fc5220bf8d611def5618758b05160ff05312
parent991ec02cdca33b03a132a0cacfe6f0aa0be9aa8d
kmemleak: Add the base support

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 unreferenced objects are not freed but only shown in
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this feature introduces an
overhead to memory allocations.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
include/linux/kmemleak.h [new file with mode: 0644]
init/main.c
mm/kmemleak.c [new file with mode: 0644]