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 ESMTP id 7C9806B004D for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:18:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:20:08 +0100 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: kmemleak suggestion (long message) Message-ID: <20090626102008.31a67543@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1246006463.30717.12.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> References: <20090625221816.GA3480@localdomain.by> <20090626065923.GA14078@elte.hu> <84144f020906260007u3e79086bv91900e487ba0fb50@mail.gmail.com> <20090626081452.GB3451@localdomain.by> <1246004270.27533.16.camel@penberg-laptop> <20090626085056.GC3451@localdomain.by> <1246006463.30717.12.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Catalin Marinas Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky , Pekka Enberg , Ingo Molnar , "Paul E. McKenney" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:54:23 +0100 Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 11:50 +0300, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > > On (06/26/09 11:17), Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > Well, the thing is, I am not sure it's needed if we implement Ingo's > > > suggestion. After all, syslog is no longer spammed very hard and you can > > > do all the filtering in userspace when you read /debug/mm/kmemleak file, > > > no? > > > > Well, we just move 'spam' out of syslog. Not dealing with 'spam' itself. > > I'm not sure about 'filtering in userspace when you read'. Suppose I use > > 'tail -f /debug/mm/kmemleak'. How can I easy suppress printing of (for example): > > I don't have a strong opinion on this patch at the moment, I'll have a > look later today. > > > Or any report with tty_ldisc_try_get (ppp generates tons of them). > > BTW, that's a real leak IMHO (posted a patch yesterday in reply to the > initial report to Alan Cox). Yes its on my todo list - probably for early next week along with nailing down a couple of warnings suggesting there is another race lurking somewhere. -- 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