Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932348AbWEOKPo (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 06:15:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932364AbWEOKPn (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 06:15:43 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com ([66.249.82.202]:10725 "EHLO wx-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932348AbWEOKPn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 06:15:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FkB4gbvMvGsfJwkCQiH34YZkljglvBWXhFaKRZ66a4+Bngxo37ceSuoc1Z0+GNusGFkSwNUEFPS9idlXkEiCeFZUmvVA7mOxdXxajjBm4K+WtELQZKPMCXYTp1gnMF+JK4T1MZ7h5gwMht7Yues7s8GCzLq56m9m4dNzfbwbTbU= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:15:42 +0100 From: "Catalin Marinas" To: "Ingo Oeser" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 1/6] Base support for kmemleak Cc: "Jesper Juhl" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200605141932.10799.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060513155757.8848.11980.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <9a8748490605131042w3214a7b8lb9a862798e3131d4@mail.gmail.com> <4466DB13.5090104@gmail.com> <200605141932.10799.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 999 Lines: 22 On 14/05/06, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Sunday, 14. May 2006 09:24, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > The best would be to test it using a loadable module but I did most of > > the work on an embedded ARM platform where it was much easier to add > > some code directly. The code will be cleaned up in subsequent versions. > > Fair enough. Just put it in a seperate file, > add a Kconfig "TEST_MEMLEAK_DETECTOR" tristate option, > depending on "DEBUG_MEMLEAK" and adjust the Makefile accordingly. I'll do this since the patch needs a lot more testing to show that it can actually find real bugs and also determine its limitations. I posted this first version to see what people think about it but it is far from the final version. -- 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/