On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 10:41 +0000, Daniel Baluta wrote: >> Can I make any use of kmemcheck if I don't have sysfs >> kernel support enabled? > > Kmemleak can scan output the memory and report the number of leaked > objects but if you need to get additional information about the leaked > objects (like backtrace), you need debugfs enabled. How is this reporting done? It will appear in dmesg output? > DEBUG_FS doesn't seem to be dependent on SYSFS but I never tried to > enable one without the other (you might be able to mount the DEBUG_FS > somewhere other than /sys/kernel/debug/). I see. I was using 2.6.32 where it seems that debugfs depended on sysfs. Decoupling was done some time later [1]. thanks, Daniel. [1] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/8/5/4603446 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
