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| author | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2009-06-26 17:38:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2009-06-26 17:38:25 +0100 |
| commit | e0a2a1601bec01243bcad44414d06f59dae2eedb (patch) | |
| tree | bb0f40e3d798c90c36a1f2befb0a0935fa78bdcc | |
| parent | a9d9058abab4ac17b79d500506e6c74bd16cecdc (diff) | |
kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default
This is to reduce the number of false positives reported.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kmemleak.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/kmemleak.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt index f655308064d7..9426e94f291a 100644 --- a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt +++ b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt @@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ Memory scanning parameters can be modified at run-time by writing to the /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file. The following parameters are supported: off - disable kmemleak (irreversible) - stack=on - enable the task stacks scanning + stack=on - enable the task stacks scanning (default) stack=off - disable the tasks stacks scanning - scan=on - start the automatic memory scanning thread + scan=on - start the automatic memory scanning thread (default) scan=off - stop the automatic memory scanning thread - scan=<secs> - set the automatic memory scanning period in seconds (0 - to disable it) + scan=<secs> - set the automatic memory scanning period in seconds + (default 600, 0 to stop the automatic scanning) Kmemleak can also be disabled at boot-time by passing "kmemleak=off" on the kernel command line. diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c index 17096d1b59b2..a38418a95d33 100644 --- a/mm/kmemleak.c +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static unsigned long jiffies_min_age; /* delay between automatic memory scannings */ static signed long jiffies_scan_wait; /* enables or disables the task stacks scanning */ -static int kmemleak_stack_scan; +static int kmemleak_stack_scan = 1; /* mutex protecting the memory scanning */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(scan_mutex); /* mutex protecting the access to the /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file */ |