Re: How to check if my kernel driver is leaking memory

Hi, Are you writing driver on X86 or some other Architecture ? if it is X86 then use *KEDR framework(http://kedr.berlios.de/ http://kedr.berlios.de/).* *RegardsSanjeev Sharma* On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:28 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 22:14:24 -0700, m silverstri

Re: How to check if my kernel driver is leaking memory

2014-03-10 10:44 GMT+05:30 m silverstri michael.j.silvers...@gmail.com: Hi, I am developing a kernel driver. What should I test to make sure my kernel driver is not leaking memory? 1. under normal operation (when applications open and close my driver properly) 2. in error situation (when

Re: How to check if my kernel driver is leaking memory

Please use make menuconfig and press / then search for DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE and adjust value then save and exit. You will find it under Kernel Hacking - Memory Debugging -| Kernel memory leak detector Symbol: DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE [=] │ Type : integer │ Prompt: Maximum

Re: How to check if my kernel driver is leaking memory

On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 22:14:24 -0700, m silverstri said: I am developing a kernel driver. What should I test to make sure my kernel driver is not leaking memory? 1) The brute force method - just add lots of printk's that have allocating 25-byte frobozz struct and freeing 25-byte frobozz struct

How to check if my kernel driver is leaking memory

Hi, I am developing a kernel driver. What should I test to make sure my kernel driver is not leaking memory? 1. under normal operation (when applications open and close my driver properly) 2. in error situation (when application open my driver and then it crashes without close my driver property)