Re: kmemleak suggestion (long message)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jun 26 2009 - 02:59:50 EST



* Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Currently kmemleak prints info about all objects. I guess
> sometimes kmemleak gives you more than you actually need.

It prints _a lot_ of info and spams the syslog. I lost crash info a
few days ago due to that: by the time i inspected a crashed machine
the tons of kmemleak output scrolled out the crash from the dmesg
buffer.

This is not acceptable.

Instead it should perhaps print _at most_ a single line every few
minutes, printing a summary about _how many_ leaked entries it
suspects, and should offer a /debug/mm/kmemleak style of file where
the entries can be read out from.

Ok?

Ingo
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