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| author | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2009-08-27 14:29:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2009-08-27 14:29:15 +0100 |
| commit | 189d84ed54bbb05aac5b24d9d784d86c4d37f807 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a856fddf93cd6688978d2d675623c96de4c46cd /Documentation/kmemleak.txt | |
| parent | af98603dad87e393d2fc57117fe8a2aa6d620a0c (diff) | |
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kmemleak: Dump object information on request
By writing dump=<addr> to the kmemleak file, kmemleak will look up an
object with that address and dump the information it has about it to
syslog. This is useful in debugging memory leaks.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt index 8906803..c223785 100644 --- a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt +++ b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Memory scanning parameters can be modified at run-time by writing to the scan=<secs> - set the automatic memory scanning period in seconds (default 600, 0 to stop the automatic scanning) scan - trigger a memory scan + dump=<addr> - dump information about the object found at <addr> Kmemleak can also be disabled at boot-time by passing "kmemleak=off" on the kernel command line. |
