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| author | Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com> | 2023-01-19 09:22:24 +0800 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-02-02 22:33:26 -0800 |
| commit | b2db9ef2c0926ba86898136704cdc757c7a5a60a (patch) | |
| tree | 2f0c86e95889903f54dd6e7fe9e20c962b227e76 /mm/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | f4c978b6594b7452ef22a2fcff376debafcf25eb (diff) | |
mm: move KMEMLEAK's Kconfig items from lib to mm
Have the kmemleak's source code and Kconfig items be in the same directory.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1674091345-14799-1-git-send-email-zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com
Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: ke.wang <ke.wang@unisoc.com>
Cc: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@alu.unizg.hr>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig.debug | 72 |
1 files changed, 72 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug index d62f48131952..c3547a373c9c 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -207,3 +207,75 @@ config PTDUMP_DEBUGFS kernel. If in doubt, say N. + +config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + bool + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + bool "Kernel memory leak detector" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + select DEBUG_FS + select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT + select KALLSYMS + select CRC32 + select STACKDEPOT + select STACKDEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT if !DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF + help + Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak + detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way + similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the + difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but + only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this + feature will introduce an overhead to memory + allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more + details. + + Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances + of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. + + In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be + mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE + int "Kmemleak memory pool size" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + range 200 1000000 + default 16000 + help + Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid + reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or + freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool + of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is + fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one + if slab allocations fail. + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST + tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m + help + This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. + + If unsure, say N. + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF + bool "Default kmemleak to off" + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + help + Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled + on the command line via kmemleak=on. + +config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN + bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" + default y + depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + help + Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can + stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic + kmemleak scan at boot up. + + Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic + scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of + memory leaks. + + If unsure, say Y. + |