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index fca699ad1fb0..c3547a373c9c 100644
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@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ config PAGE_OWNER
help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
"page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
- a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
+ a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/mm/page_owner_sort.c
for user-space helper.
If unsure, say N.
@@ -207,3 +207,75 @@ config PTDUMP_DEBUGFS
kernel.
If in doubt, say N.
+
+config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ bool
+
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ select DEBUG_FS
+ select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
+ select KALLSYMS
+ select CRC32
+ select STACKDEPOT
+ select STACKDEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT if !DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
+ help
+ Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
+ detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
+ similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
+ difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
+ only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
+ feature will introduce an overhead to memory
+ allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more
+ details.
+
+ Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances
+ of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning.
+
+ In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
+ mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
+
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE
+ int "Kmemleak memory pool size"
+ depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ range 200 1000000
+ default 16000
+ help
+ Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid
+ reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or
+ freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool
+ of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is
+ fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one
+ if slab allocations fail.
+
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST
+ tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector"
+ depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m
+ help
+ This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF
+ bool "Default kmemleak to off"
+ depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ help
+ Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled
+ on the command line via kmemleak=on.
+
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN
+ bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up"
+ default y
+ depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ help
+ Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can
+ stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic
+ kmemleak scan at boot up.
+
+ Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic
+ scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of
+ memory leaks.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+