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kmemleak: Do not force the slab debugging Kconfig options

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Selecting DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG by the KMEMLEAK menu entry may cause
issues with other dependencies (KMEMCHECK). These configuration options
aren't strictly needed by kmemleak but they may increase the chances of
finding leaks. This patch also updates the KMEMLEAK config entry help
text.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Catalin Marinas 2009-06-23 14:40:27 +01:00
parent ae281064be
commit bf96d1e3e7
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -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).