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| author | Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com> | 2011-04-04 14:58:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-04-04 17:51:46 -0700 |
| commit | 21b86bd5a838ee882d36d354185e29650b0757dd (patch) | |
| tree | b2a5d0d3a94f11b7e6a31fa90df3319f421ade2b /Documentation/kmemleak.txt | |
| parent | a5660b41af6a28f8004e70eb261e1202ad55c5e3 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-21b86bd5a838ee882d36d354185e29650b0757dd.tar.gz lwn-21b86bd5a838ee882d36d354185e29650b0757dd.zip | |
Documentation: update kmemleak arch. info
Besides x86 and arm, kmemleak now supports powerpc, sparc, sh,
microblaze and tile.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kmemleak.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kmemleak.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt index 34f6638aa5ac..090e6ee04536 100644 --- a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt +++ b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ with the difference that the orphan objects are not freed but only reported via /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. A similar method is used by the Valgrind tool (memcheck --leak-check) to detect the memory leaks in user-space applications. +Kmemleak is supported on x86, arm, powerpc, sparc, sh, microblaze and tile. Usage ----- @@ -178,5 +179,4 @@ block doesn't need to be freed (some cases in the init_call functions), the pointer is calculated by other methods than the usual container_of macro or the pointer is stored in a location not scanned by kmemleak. -Page allocations and ioremap are not tracked. Only the ARM and x86 -architectures are currently supported. +Page allocations and ioremap are not tracked. |