[PATCH 2.6.17-rc5 0/8] Kernel memory leak detector 0.5

[Catalin Marinas]

This is a new version (0.5) of the kernel memory leak detector. It is
mainly a bug-fix release after testing it with a wider range of kernel
modules. See the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file for a more detailed
description. The patches are downloadable from (the bundled patch or
the series):

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/kmemleak/patch-2.6.17-rc5-kmemleak-0.5.bz2
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cmarinas/kmemleak/patches-kmemleak-0.5.tar.bz2

What's new in this version:

- fixed panic caused by some secondary offsets in modules
- removed the panic when not all aliases are found for freed pointers
  as the aliases list can be modified by modules insertion
- following Pavel's suggestion, shortened the function names by
  removing "_debug"

To do:

- more testing
- test Ingo's suggestion on task stacks scanning
- NUMA support
- (support for ioremap tracking)

Note that gcc4 cannot compile the kernels with this patch because of a
bug with __builtin_constant_p (always returning true).

Any bug reports or suggestions are more than welcome as I can only
test it with a limited number of kernel configurations.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin
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