Re: Bridge issue #3! dma_alloc_coherent causing crash - pm branch

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"Gupta, Ramesh" <grgupta@xxxxxx> writes:

[...]

>> > Sounds like a memory leak in the bridge driver to me.  I 
>> suggest you 
>> > enable memory leak debugging.  In Kconfig
>> > 
>> >    Kernel Hacking -->  Kernel debugging
>> > 
>> > Enable 'Debug slab memory allocations' and its child 'Memory leak 
>> > debugging'.
>> > 
>> > Or, you could switch to the SLUB allocator which has some more 
>> > flexible debug options which can be controlled at boot-time 
>> from the cmdline.
>> > 
>> > While you are in the Kernel debugging menu, make sure you enable 
>> > 'Verbose BUG()' and 'Verbose kernel errors'.  This will ensure that 
>> > any memory leaks will be dumped with some extra debug output.
>
> I enabled all the above options, do I need to add some boot options to enable 
> Debug messages? I am not seeing any debug information displayed in the cosole by default.
> Looks like I am mising some thing :( . Any comments?
>

You'll only see extra messages when the kerel hits a BUG() or a WARN().  If
you don't see anything more verbose with all these options enabled, then
the kernel is not detecting any problems.

Kevin
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