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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-06-26 17:38:25 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-06-26 17:38:25 +0100
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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>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kmemleak.txt8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
index f655308064d7..9426e94f291a 100644
--- a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ Memory scanning parameters can be modified at run-time by writing to the
 /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.