How about kmemleak? The documentation can be found at Documentation/kmemleak.txt I never used it so I cannot really tell you but perhaps worth trying. ;-) http://lwn.net/Articles/185468/ HTH. Ilho <>< On Dec 21, 2007 4:37 PM, Talib Alium <talibalm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanos McAtos <mcatos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is there any tool which can help me with debugging memory leak in > > kernel module ? > > > If you use fix-sized memory objects, you can use kmem_caches, which will > detect memory leaks when you try to destruct them. > Thanks for the tip. I am already using slabs for some of the allocation. I > was talking about kmalloc allocation tracking. > -- YES, JESUS LOVES YOU, TOO. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life(John 3:16). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
