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diff --git a/tools/testing/vsock/README b/tools/testing/vsock/README index 84ee217ba8ee..680ce666ceb5 100644 --- a/tools/testing/vsock/README +++ b/tools/testing/vsock/README @@ -36,6 +36,21 @@ Invoke test binaries in both directions as follows: --control-port=1234 \ --peer-cid=3 +Some tests are designed to produce kernel memory leaks. Leaks detection, +however, is deferred to Kernel Memory Leak Detector. It is recommended to enable +kmemleak (CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y) and explicitly trigger a scan after each test +suite run, e.g. + + # echo clear > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak + # $TEST_BINARY ... + # echo "wait for any grace periods" && sleep 2 + # echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak + # echo "wait for kmemleak" && sleep 5 + # echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak + # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak + +For more information see Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst. + vsock_perf utility ------------------- 'vsock_perf' is a simple tool to measure vsock performance. It works in |