Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update kmemleak architecture supportinfo

From: Maxin B John
Date: Fri Jun 10 2011 - 15:10:04 EST


>> I think Daniel's suggestion is better, we don't have to worry about
>> changing the documentation every time we add a new architecture.
I agree with that.

> Please send an updated patch without the currently-supported list
> of architectures.
Please find the updated patch below:

Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@xxxxxxxxx>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
index 090e6ee..51063e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ 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.
+
+Please check DEBUG_KMEMLEAK dependencies in lib/Kconfig.debug for supported
+architectures.

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