From a9d9058abab4ac17b79d500506e6c74bd16cecdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Catalin Marinas Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:16:11 +0100 Subject: kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable. (feature suggested by Sergey Senozhatsky) Kmemleak needs to track all the memory allocations but some of these happen before kmemleak is initialised. These are stored in an internal buffer which may be exceeded in some kernel configurations. This patch adds a configuration option with a default value of 400 and also removes the stack dump when the early log buffer is exceeded. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky --- Documentation/kmemleak.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt index 0112da3..f655308 100644 --- a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt +++ b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt @@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ Memory scanning parameters can be modified at run-time by writing to the Kmemleak can also be disabled at boot-time by passing "kmemleak=off" on the kernel command line. +Memory may be allocated or freed before kmemleak is initialised and +these actions are stored in an early log buffer. The size of this buffer +is configured via the CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE option. + Basic Algorithm --------------- -- cgit v1.1