kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default This is to reduce the number of false positives reported. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt index f655308..9426e94 100644 --- a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt +++ b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file. The following parameters are supported: off - disable kmemleak (irreversible) - stack=on - enable the task stacks scanning + stack=on - enable the task stacks scanning (default) stack=off - disable the tasks stacks scanning - scan=on - start the automatic memory scanning thread + scan=on - start the automatic memory scanning thread (default) scan=off - stop the automatic memory scanning thread - scan=<secs> - set the automatic memory scanning period in seconds (0 - to disable it) + scan=<secs> - set the automatic memory scanning period in seconds + (default 600, 0 to stop the automatic scanning) Kmemleak can also be disabled at boot-time by passing "kmemleak=off" on the kernel command line.
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c index 17096d1..a38418a 100644 --- a/mm/kmemleak.c +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ /* delay between automatic memory scannings */ static signed long jiffies_scan_wait; /* enables or disables the task stacks scanning */ -static int kmemleak_stack_scan; +static int kmemleak_stack_scan = 1; /* mutex protecting the memory scanning */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(scan_mutex); /* mutex protecting the access to the /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file */