Re: kmemleak suggestion (long message)

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Fri Jun 26 2009 - 04:28:15 EST


On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 09:25 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> BTW, this was questioned in the past as well - do we still need the
> automatic scanning from a kernel thread? Can a user cron job just read
> the kmemleak file?

I think the kernel thread makes sense so that we get an early warning in
syslog. Ingo, what's your take on this from autoqa point of view?

Pekka

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