Commit bf96d1e3 authored by Catalin Marinas's avatar Catalin Marinas

kmemleak: Do not force the slab debugging Kconfig options

Selecting DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG by the KMEMLEAK menu entry may cause
issues with other dependencies (KMEMCHECK). These configuration options
aren't strictly needed by kmemleak but they may increase the chances of
finding leaks. This patch also updates the KMEMLEAK config entry help
text.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
parent ae281064
......@@ -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).
......
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