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authorWang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>2014-04-03 14:50:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-04-03 16:21:27 -0700
commit4762c98413836dfc3bff2857647f8d673a86d210 (patch)
tree5f34e7f47b3a0224583d126f6f44b8a30fae9102 /Documentation/kmemleak.txt
parent31e143686a39bff19a72d1806f9b8392c03dca92 (diff)
Documentation/kmemleak.txt: updates
Update Documentatin/kmemleak.txt to reflect the following changes: Commit b69ec42b1b19 ("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. Commit 85d3a316c71 ("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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diff --git a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
index 6c18be97f3dd..a7563ec4ea7b 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
@@ -11,9 +11,7 @@ with the difference that the orphan objects are not freed but only
reported via /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. A similar method is used by the
Valgrind tool (memcheck --leak-check) to detect the memory leaks in
user-space applications.
-
-Please check DEBUG_KMEMLEAK dependencies in lib/Kconfig.debug for supported
-architectures.
+Kmemleak is supported on x86, arm, powerpc, sparc, sh, microblaze, ppc, mips, s390, metag and tile.
Usage
-----
@@ -69,7 +67,7 @@ Basic Algorithm
The memory allocations via kmalloc, vmalloc, kmem_cache_alloc and
friends are traced and the pointers, together with additional
-information like size and stack trace, are stored in a prio search tree.
+information like size and stack trace, are stored in a rbtree.
The corresponding freeing function calls are tracked and the pointers
removed from the kmemleak data structures.
@@ -85,7 +83,7 @@ The scanning algorithm steps:
1. mark all objects as white (remaining white objects will later be
considered orphan)
2. scan the memory starting with the data section and stacks, checking
- the values against the addresses stored in the prio search tree. If
+ the values against the addresses stored in the rbtree. If
a pointer to a white object is found, the object is added to the
gray list
3. scan the gray objects for matching addresses (some white objects