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-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 23067ab..4c32b1a 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -340,8 +340,6 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM) && \
!MEMORY_HOTPLUG
- select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB
- select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
select KALLSYMS
@@ -355,6 +353,9 @@ config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt 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).
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