more debugging enabled in rawhide kernels.

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Jun 25 19:36:38 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 04:53:27PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
 > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 08:08:40PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > In tomorrows rawhide kernel, I've enabled a debugging option
 > > called kmemleak. As the name suggests, this tracks memory allocations,
 > > and prints backtraces in cases where the memory is believed to be lost.
 > 
 > As a general comment, I see many backtraces when I run the libguestfs
 > testsuite.  Most are harmless, in that they don't appear to affect the
 > running of programs, so I don't report them.  But is it helpful to
 > report these?  If so how - open BZs for each variation that I see?

Everything I've seen so far looks like a false positive.
The next build should reduce the number of these (hopefully dramatically).

So for now, just hold off on filing anything.

	Dave
 




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