Re: [PATCH 12/15] kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leakdetector

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Dec 10 2008 - 14:20:30 EST


On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 18:28 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> +config DEBUG_MEMLEAK
> + bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
> + default n
> + depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> + select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB
> + select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
> + select DEBUG_FS
> + select STACKTRACE
> + select FRAME_POINTER
> + select KALLSYMS

So, not all architectures have STACKTRACE or FRAME_POINTER. I think a
few of these should at least be done with depends.

Is this feature accessible if DEBUG_FS=n? It seems to compile OK, but I
wonder if it is useful.

-- Dave

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