[PATCH 2/3] kmemleak: Show the age of an unreferenced object

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Wed Oct 28 2009 - 13:18:34 EST


The jiffies shown for unreferenced objects isn't always meaningful to
people debugging kernel memory leaks. This patch adds the age as well to
the displayed information.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/kmemleak.c | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index f06c092..ce79d91 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -346,11 +346,13 @@ static void print_unreferenced(struct seq_file *seq,
struct kmemleak_object *object)
{
int i;
+ unsigned int msecs_age = jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies - object->jiffies);

seq_printf(seq, "unreferenced object 0x%08lx (size %zu):\n",
object->pointer, object->size);
- seq_printf(seq, " comm \"%s\", pid %d, jiffies %lu\n",
- object->comm, object->pid, object->jiffies);
+ seq_printf(seq, " comm \"%s\", pid %d, jiffies %lu (age %d.%03ds)\n",
+ object->comm, object->pid, object->jiffies,
+ msecs_age / 1000, msecs_age % 1000);
hex_dump_object(seq, object);
seq_printf(seq, " backtrace:\n");


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