Re: [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: kmemleak: fix stale statements about scanning

Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.workflows,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 06:47:36AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> Three statements in the "false positives/negatives" and "Limitations"
> sections have never matched the code:
> 
>  - task stack scanning is on by default (kmemleak_stack_scan = 1), as
>    the parameter list earlier in the same document already states;
> 
>  - MSECS_MIN_AGE has been 5000, not 1000, since the initial commit;
> 
>  - scanning is done by a periodic kthread. Reading the debugfs file
>    only lists what the last scan found; kmemleak_open() calls
>    seq_open() and never scans.
> 
> Fixes: 04f70336c80c ("kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector")
> Fixes: e0a2a1601bec ("kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default")
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
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