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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