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authorGlenn Elliott <gelliott@cs.unc.edu>2012-03-04 19:47:13 -0500
committerGlenn Elliott <gelliott@cs.unc.edu>2012-03-04 19:47:13 -0500
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Merge branch 'mpi-master' into wip-k-fmlpwip-k-fmlp
Conflicts: litmus/sched_cedf.c
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ reported via /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. A similar method is used by the
12Valgrind tool (memcheck --leak-check) to detect the memory leaks in 12Valgrind tool (memcheck --leak-check) to detect the memory leaks in
13user-space applications. 13user-space applications.
14 14
15Please check DEBUG_KMEMLEAK dependencies in lib/Kconfig.debug for supported
16architectures.
17
15Usage 18Usage
16----- 19-----
17 20
@@ -178,5 +181,4 @@ block doesn't need to be freed (some cases in the init_call functions),
178the pointer is calculated by other methods than the usual container_of 181the pointer is calculated by other methods than the usual container_of
179macro or the pointer is stored in a location not scanned by kmemleak. 182macro or the pointer is stored in a location not scanned by kmemleak.
180 183
181Page allocations and ioremap are not tracked. Only the ARM and x86 184Page allocations and ioremap are not tracked.
182architectures are currently supported.