kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector

This patch adds the Kconfig.debug and Makefile entries needed for
building kmemleak into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 6cdcf38f2da9..5cc3506574e9 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -336,6 +336,28 @@ config SLUB_STATS
 	  out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
 	  Try running: slabinfo -DA
 
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+	bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM) && \
+		!MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+	select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB
+	select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
+	select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
+	select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
+	select KALLSYMS
+	help
+	  Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
+	  detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
+	  similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
+	  difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
+	  only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
+	  feature will introduce an overhead to memory
+	  allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
+	  details.
+
+	  In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
+	  mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
+
 config DEBUG_PREEMPT
 	bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)