M Sudhir wrote: > hi, > > can anbody suggest anyway by which we can log the information each time > a kmalloc is called and corresponding kfree is called to free the memory > so as to detect any leaks by user inserted modules? > > regards > > sudhir > > Write your own function mykmalloc(size, flag) that adds the requested size of bytes to a global memory totalizer. Likewise make a mykfree function that does the opposite. When your program exits, check to see that your global totalizer is zero...if not you have leaks:) HTH -- Best regards, David Stroupe Keyed-up Software -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
