Re: kmemleak suggestion (long message)

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Fri Jun 26 2009 - 05:12:02 EST


On (06/26/09 09:54), Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > Well, we just move 'spam' out of syslog. Not dealing with 'spam' itself.
> > I'm not sure about 'filtering in userspace when you read'. Suppose I use
> > 'tail -f /debug/mm/kmemleak'. How can I easy suppress printing of (for example):
>
> I don't have a strong opinion on this patch at the moment, I'll have a
> look later today.
>
Well, take a look please.
I find it (suggested mechanism) to be useful.

> > Or any report with tty_ldisc_try_get (ppp generates tons of them).
>
> BTW, that's a real leak IMHO (posted a patch yesterday in reply to the
> initial report to Alan Cox).
>
I'll try to find link to see it. Since tty_ldisc_try_get reports started
to 'annoy' me.

> --
> Catalin
>

Sergey
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