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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 23067ab1a73..4c32b1a1a06 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). |