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Documentation: update kmemleak architecture support info

PATCH Applied Maxin B John 3 participants 3 messages Jun 10, 2011 Documentation

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I think Daniel's suggestion is better, we don't have to worry about changing the documentation every time we add a new architecture.

I agree with that.

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Please send an updated patch without the currently-supported list of architectures.

Please find the updated patch below:

Signed-off-by Maxin B. John <[email protected]>

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Documentation/kmemleak.txt +3 -1
index 090e6ee..51063e6 100644
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ 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.
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+Please check DEBUG_KMEMLEAK dependencies in lib/Kconfig.debug for supported
+architectures.
 
 Usage
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Quoted 9 lines · On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:09:56 +0300 Maxin B John wrote:
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I think Daniel's suggestion is better, we don't have to worry about changing the documentation every time we add a new architecture.

I agree with that.

Quoted 2 lines

Please send an updated patch without the currently-supported list of architectures.

Please find the updated patch below:

Signed-off-by Maxin B. John <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.

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Documentation/kmemleak.txt +0 -0
index 090e6ee..51063e6 100644
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ 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

Documentation/kmemleak.txt with the difference that the orphan objects are not freed but only

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Documentation/kmemleak.txt +3 -2
 user-space applications.
-Kmemleak is supported on x86, arm, powerpc, sparc, sh, microblaze and tile.
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+Please check DEBUG_KMEMLEAK dependencies in lib/Kconfig.debug for supported
+architectures.
 
 Usage
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~Randy
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Quoted 4 lines · On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:09:56 +0300 Maxin B John wrote:
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I think Daniel's suggestion is better, we don't have to worry about changing the documentation every time we add a new architecture.

I agree with that.

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Please send an updated patch without the currently-supported list of architectures.

Please find the updated patch below:

Signed-off-by Maxin B. John <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.

Thanks.

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