On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:21:56AM -0700, Sankar P wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to detect memory leaks in one of my kernel modules. So I > built Linus' tree with the following config options enabled (on top > of make defconfig) > > CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE=400 > CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST=y > > If I boot with this kernel, debugfs is automatically mounted. But I do > not have the file: > > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak > > created at all. There are other files like kprobes in the mounted > /sys/kernel/debug directory btw. So I am not able to detect any of the > memory leaks. Is there anything I am doing wrong or missing (or) is > this a bug in kmemleak ? > > Please let me know your suggestions to fix this and get memory leaks > reporting working. Thanks. > > The full .config file is also attached with this mail. Sorry for the > attachment, I did not want to paste 5k lines in the mail. Sorry if it > is wrong. This is odd.. Do you see this message on your kernel ring buffer? Failed to create the debugfs kmemleak file Luis -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>