Hi... On Jan 24, 2008 1:32 PM, sahlot arvind <asahlot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks to all for their resonse! > > Ok, just one thing - > When I do lsmod - > it shows the memory used by loaded LKMs. So if there is a leak in LKM1 then > after executing the function (which is doing kmalloc but forgetting to do > kfree) of LKM1, lsmod should report an increased memory usage by LKM1. Am I > right? I doubt it. I guess lsmod just show initialized+text size section, not allocated pages during runtime of the module. And, memory allocated by pages are considered "kernel memory". So unless you mark them somehow, there is no difference between the ones allocated by module, syscall and so on. regards, Mulyadi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
