Re: mmotm 2010-06-03-16-36 lots of suspected kmemleak

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 11:00 +0100, Dave Young wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 06:20 +0100, Dave Young wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >>> With mmotm 2010-06-03-16-36, I gots tuns of kmemleaks
> >> >>
> >> >> Do you have CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM enabled? I posted a patch for this but
> >> >> hasn't been reviewed yet (I'll probably need to repost, so if it fixes
> >> >> the problem for you a Tested-by would be nice):
> >> >>
> >> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/4/175
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I'd like to test, but I can not access the test pc during weekend. So
> >> > I will test it next monday.
> >>
> >> Bad news, the patch does not fix this issue.
> >
> > Thanks for trying. Could you please just disable CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM and
> > post the kmemleak reported leaks again?
> 
> Still too many suspected leaks, results similar with
> (CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM = y && apply your patch), looks like a little
> different from original ones? I just copy some of them here:
> 
> unreferenced object 0xde3c7420 (size 44):
>   comm "bash", pid 1631, jiffies 4294897023 (age 223.573s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     05 05 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  .....N..........
>     98 42 d9 c1 00 00 00 00 50 fe 63 c1 10 32 8f dd  .B......P.c..2..
>   backtrace:
>     [<c1498ad2>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0x83
>     [<c10c1ace>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xde/0x12a
>     [<c10b421b>] anon_vma_fork+0x31/0x88
>     [<c102c71d>] dup_mm+0x1d3/0x38f
>     [<c102d20d>] copy_process+0x8ce/0xf39
>     [<c102d990>] do_fork+0x118/0x295
>     [<c1007fe0>] sys_clone+0x1f/0x24
>     [<c10029b1>] ptregs_clone+0x15/0x24
>     [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

I'll try to test the mmotm kernel as well. I don't get any kmemleak
reports with the 2.6.35-rc1 kernel.

Can you send me your .config file? Do you have CONFIG_HUGETLBFS enabled?

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin

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