Re: kmemleak suggestion (long message)

[Catalin Marinas]

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 11:27 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> 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.

If we keep the automatic scanning I could also change the code so that
the debug/kmemleak file only shows what was found during the thread
scanning rather than trigger a new scan (this could be forced with
something like echo "scan=now" > debug/kmemleak).

-- 
Catalin

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