From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DBB36B0083 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 20:44:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.105]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:44:57 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: [PATCH v3 0/5] kmemleak: few small cleanups and clear command support Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:44:49 -0700 Message-ID: <1252111494-7593-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: catalin.marinas@arm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, mcgrof@gmail.com, "Luis R. Rodriguez" List-ID: Here is my third respin, this time rebased ontop of: git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6 kmemleak As suggested by Catalin we now clear the list by only painting reported unreferenced objects and the color we use is grey to ensure future scans are possible on these same objects to account for new allocations in the future referenced on the cleared objects. Patch 3 is now a little different, now with a paint_ptr() and a __paint_it() helper. I tested this by clearing kmemleak after bootup, then writing my own buggy module which kmalloc()'d onto some internal pointer, scanned, unloaded, and scanned again and then saw a new shiny report come up: unreferenced object 0xffff88003ad70920 (size 16): comm "insmod", pid 7449, jiffies 4296458482 hex dump (first 16 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [] kmemleak_alloc+0x25/0x60 [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x14b/0x1c0 [] 0xffffffffa000a07f [] do_one_initcall+0x37/0x1a0 [] sys_init_module+0xd9/0x230 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [] 0xffffffffffffffff Luis R. Rodriguez (5): kmemleak: use bool for true/false questions kmemleak: add clear command support kmemleak: move common painting code together kmemleak: fix sparse warning over overshadowed flags kmemleak: fix sparse warning for static declarations Documentation/kmemleak.txt | 30 +++++++++++ mm/kmemleak.c | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 2 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org