Re: kmemleak suggestion (long message)

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Fri Jun 26 2009 - 04:18:08 EST


Hi Sergey,

On (06/26/09 10:07), Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Yup, makes tons of sense.

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 11:14 +0300, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> What do you about suggested ability to filter/block "unwanted" reports?
> IMHO it makes sense.

Well, the thing is, I am not sure it's needed if we implement Ingo's
suggestion. After all, syslog is no longer spammed very hard and you can
do all the filtering in userspace when you read /debug/mm/kmemleak file,
no?

Pekka

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