Re: kmemleak suggestion (long message)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Ingo, what's your take on this from autoqa 
> point of view?

it would be nice to have more relevant messages. Many of the 
messages seem false positives, right? So it would be nice to 
constrain kmemleak into a mode of operation that makes its 
backtraces worth looking at. A message about suspected leaks is 
definitely useful, it just shouldnt be printed too frequently.

	Ingo
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