Re: Help - looking for tools to trace memory leak in kernel modules.

From: Kasper Dupont (remove.invalid_at_nospam.lir.dk.invalid)
Date: 08/30/04


Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:38:51 +0200

L wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Our project, which has a few kernel modules, may have some memory leak. Are
> there any tools we can use to trace memory leak in kernel modules?

This discussion might be a help. It mostly discuss how
to find out if you really have a kernel memory leak, but
it does also give a few hints on how to find out how the
memory is allocated:

http://www.daimi.au.dk/~kasperd/comp.os.linux.development.faq.html#memleak

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