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authorDaniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com>2011-04-04 14:58:03 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-04-04 17:51:46 -0700
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Documentation: update kmemleak arch. info
Besides x86 and arm, kmemleak now supports powerpc, sparc, sh, microblaze and tile. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
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@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ with the difference that the orphan objects are not freed but only
reported via /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. A similar method is used by the
Valgrind tool (memcheck --leak-check) to detect the memory leaks in
user-space applications.
+Kmemleak is supported on x86, arm, powerpc, sparc, sh, microblaze and tile.
Usage
-----
@@ -178,5 +179,4 @@ block doesn't need to be freed (some cases in the init_call functions),
the pointer is calculated by other methods than the usual container_of
macro or the pointer is stored in a location not scanned by kmemleak.
-Page allocations and ioremap are not tracked. Only the ARM and x86
-architectures are currently supported.
+Page allocations and ioremap are not tracked.