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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2014-06-06 14:38:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-06 16:08:17 -0700
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mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace()
The memory allocation stack trace is not always useful for debugging a memory leak (e.g. radix_tree_preload). This function, when called, updates the stack trace for an already allocated object. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ kmemleak_alloc_percpu - notify of a percpu memory block allocation
kmemleak_free - notify of a memory block freeing
kmemleak_free_part - notify of a partial memory block freeing
kmemleak_free_percpu - notify of a percpu memory block freeing
+kmemleak_update_trace - update object allocation stack trace
kmemleak_not_leak - mark an object as not a leak
kmemleak_ignore - do not scan or report an object as leak
kmemleak_scan_area - add scan areas inside a memory block