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Commit 21b86bd5 authored by Daniel Baluta's avatar Daniel Baluta Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Documentation: update kmemleak arch. info 



Besides x86 and arm, kmemleak now supports powerpc, sparc, sh,
microblaze and tile.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com>
Acked-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent a5660b41

Documentation/kmemleak.txt

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@@ -11,6 +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.

Kmemleak is supported on x86, arm, powerpc, sparc, sh, microblaze and tile.



Usage

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@@ -178,5 +179,4 @@ block doesn't need to be freed (some cases in the init_call functions), 
the pointer is calculated by other methods than the usual container_of

macro or the pointer is stored in a location not scanned by kmemleak.



Page allocations and ioremap are not tracked. Only the ARM and x86

architectures are currently supported.
 
Page allocations and ioremap are not tracked.