On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 06:47:46AM +0000, Li Zefan wrote: > +Freeing kmemleak internal objects > +--------------------------------- > + > +To allow access to previosuly found memory leaks even when an error fatal > +to kmemleak happens, internal kmemleak objects won't be freed when kmemleak > +is disabled, and those objects may occupy a large part of physical > +memory. > + > +If you want to make sure they're freed before disabling kmemleak: > + > + # echo scan=off > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak > + # echo off > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak I would actually change the code to do a stop_scan_thread() as part of the "off" handling so that scan=off is not required (we can't put it as part of the kmemleak_disable because we need scan_mutex held). -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>