Documentation/kmemleak.txt: updates
Update Documentatin/kmemleak.txt to reflect the following changes: Commitb69ec42b1b
("Kconfig: clean up the long arch list for the DEBUG_KMEMLEAK config option") made it so that we can't check supported architectures by read Kconfig.debug. Commit85d3a316c7
("kmemleak: use rbtree instead of prio tree") converted kmemleak to use rbtree instead of prio tree. Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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reported via /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. A similar method is used by the
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Valgrind tool (memcheck --leak-check) to detect the memory leaks in
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user-space applications.
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Please check DEBUG_KMEMLEAK dependencies in lib/Kconfig.debug for supported
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architectures.
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Kmemleak is supported on x86, arm, powerpc, sparc, sh, microblaze, ppc, mips, s390, metag and tile.
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Usage
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The memory allocations via kmalloc, vmalloc, kmem_cache_alloc and
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friends are traced and the pointers, together with additional
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information like size and stack trace, are stored in a prio search tree.
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information like size and stack trace, are stored in a rbtree.
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The corresponding freeing function calls are tracked and the pointers
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removed from the kmemleak data structures.
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1. mark all objects as white (remaining white objects will later be
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considered orphan)
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2. scan the memory starting with the data section and stacks, checking
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the values against the addresses stored in the prio search tree. If
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the values against the addresses stored in the rbtree. If
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a pointer to a white object is found, the object is added to the
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gray list
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3. scan the gray objects for matching addresses (some white objects
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