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diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug index d62f48131952..c3547a373c9c 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -207,3 +207,75 @@ config PTDUMP_DEBUGFS kernel. If in doubt, say N. + +config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + bool + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + bool "Kernel memory leak detector" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + select DEBUG_FS + select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT + select KALLSYMS + select CRC32 + select STACKDEPOT + select STACKDEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT if !DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF + 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/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more + details. + + Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances + of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. + + In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be + mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE + int "Kmemleak memory pool size" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + range 200 1000000 + default 16000 + help + Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid + reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or + freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool + of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is + fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one + if slab allocations fail. + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST + tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m + help + This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. + + If unsure, say N. + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF + bool "Default kmemleak to off" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + help + Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled + on the command line via kmemleak=on. + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN + bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" + default y + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + help + Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can + stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic + kmemleak scan at boot up. + + Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic + scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of + memory leaks. + + If unsure, say Y. + |