Kernel memory debugging

Debugging features available since 2.6.31

• Kmemcheck Dynamic checker for access to uninitialized memory. Only available on x86 so far, but will help to improve architecture independent code anyway. See Documentation/kmemcheck.txt for details.

• Kmemleak Dynamic checker for memory leaks This feature is available for all architectures. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for details.

Both have a significant overhead. Only use them in development!