From bf96d1e3e7a35a17cea255048ffb3243bd9c8123 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Catalin Marinas Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:40:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] kmemleak: Do not force the slab debugging Kconfig options Selecting DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG by the KMEMLEAK menu entry may cause issues with other dependencies (KMEMCHECK). These configuration options aren't strictly needed by kmemleak but they may increase the chances of finding leaks. This patch also updates the KMEMLEAK config entry help text. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Pekka Enberg --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 23067ab..4c32b1a 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -340,8 +340,6 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK bool "Kernel memory leak detector" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM) && \ !MEMORY_HOTPLUG - select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB - select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT select KALLSYMS @@ -355,6 +353,9 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt 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). -- 2.7.4