From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: kmemleak suggestion (long message)
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:42:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090626084228.GA9789@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1246004879.27533.18.camel@penberg-laptop>
* Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 09:25 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>
> > BTW, this was questioned in the past as well - do we still need
> > the automatic scanning from a kernel thread? Can a user cron job
> > just read the kmemleak file?
>
> I think the kernel thread makes sense so that we get an early
> warning in syslog. Ingo, what's your take on this from autoqa
> point of view?
it would be nice to have more relevant messages. Many of the
messages seem false positives, right? So it would be nice to
constrain kmemleak into a mode of operation that makes its
backtraces worth looking at. A message about suspected leaks is
definitely useful, it just shouldnt be printed too frequently.
Ingo
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-26 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-25 22:18 Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-06-26 6:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 7:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-26 8:14 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-06-26 8:17 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-26 8:50 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-06-26 8:54 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-06-26 9:13 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-06-26 9:20 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-26 16:12 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-06-26 22:48 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-06-26 7:48 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2009-06-26 8:25 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-06-26 8:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-26 8:41 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-06-26 8:42 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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