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| author | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2009-06-26 17:38:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2009-06-26 17:38:26 +0100 |
| commit | bab4a34afc301fdb81b6ea0e3098d96fc356e03a (patch) | |
| tree | d9722d26dc944dbad1afd6dd182aa3a21907b96d /Documentation/kmemleak.txt | |
| parent | e0a2a1601bec01243bcad44414d06f59dae2eedb (diff) | |
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kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning thread
Because of false positives, the memory scanning thread may print too
much information. This patch changes the scanning thread to only print
the number of newly suspected leaks. Further information can be read
from the /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kmemleak.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kmemleak.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt index 9426e94f291a..c06f7ba64993 100644 --- a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt +++ b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ Usage ----- CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK in "Kernel hacking" has to be enabled. A kernel -thread scans the memory every 10 minutes (by default) and prints any new -unreferenced objects found. To trigger an intermediate scan and display -all the possible memory leaks: +thread scans the memory every 10 minutes (by default) and prints the +number of new unreferenced objects found. To trigger an intermediate +scan and display the details of all the possible memory leaks: # mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/ # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak |