Re: [PATCH 01/14] kmemleak: Add the base support

[Pekka Enberg]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch adds the base support for the kernel memory leak
> detector. It traces the memory allocation/freeing in a way similar to
> the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the difference being that
> the unreferenced objects are not freed but only shown in
> /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this feature introduces an
> overhead to memory allocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me. I have only reviewed this lightly but all my major
concerns have been addressed so feel free to add my:

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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