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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-07 08:19:51 +0200
commita1922ed661ab2c1637d0b10cde933bd9cd33d965 (patch)
tree0f1777542b385ebefd30b3586d830fd8ed6fda5b /lib/Kconfig.debug
parent75e33751ca8bbb72dd6f1a74d2810ddc8cbe4bdf (diff)
parentd28daf923ac5e4a0d7cecebae56f3e339189366b (diff)
Merge branch 'tracing/core' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts: arch/Kconfig kernel/trace/trace.h Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, plus adopt to the new ring-buffer APIs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug19
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 6b0c2d8a2129..12327b2bb785 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -340,8 +340,6 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM) && \
!MEMORY_HOTPLUG
- select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB
- select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
select KALLSYMS
@@ -355,9 +353,24 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
details.
+ Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
+ of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
+
In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE
+ int "Maximum kmemleak early log entries"
+ depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ range 200 2000
+ default 400
+ help
+ Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
+ reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
+ freed before kmemleak is initialised, an early log buffer is
+ used to store these actions. If kmemleak reports "early log
+ buffer exceeded", please increase this value.
+
config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
@@ -472,7 +485,7 @@ config LOCKDEP
bool
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
select STACKTRACE
- select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390
+ select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390
select KALLSYMS
select KALLSYMS_ALL