From: daniel.baluta@gmail.com (Daniel Baluta)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Running kmemleak without sysfs support
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:33:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=mEiha0rBOrX05xR=Ry5-otsB9faC29RZK7K4a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295520732.28273.4.camel@e102109-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 10:41 +0000, Daniel Baluta wrote:
>> Can I make any use of kmemcheck if I don't have sysfs
>> kernel support enabled?
>
> Kmemleak can scan output the memory and report the number of leaked
> objects but if you need to get additional information about the leaked
> objects (like backtrace), you need debugfs enabled.
How is this reporting done? It will appear in dmesg output?
> DEBUG_FS doesn't seem to be dependent on SYSFS but I never tried to
> enable one without the other (you might be able to mount the DEBUG_FS
> somewhere other than /sys/kernel/debug/).
I see. I was using 2.6.32 where it seems that debugfs depended on sysfs.
Decoupling was done some time later [1].
thanks,
Daniel.
[1] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/8/5/4603446
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-20 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-20 10:41 Running kmemleak without sysfs support Daniel Baluta
2011-01-20 10:43 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-01-20 10:52 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-20 12:33 ` Daniel Baluta [this message]
2011-01-20 12:45 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-01-20 15:56 ` Greg KH
2011-01-21 9:26 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-01-21 14:02 ` Greg KH
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