Re: kmemleak, cpu usage jump out of nowhere

[Pekka Enberg]

Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 09:27 +0100, Zeno Davatz wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > > I am attaching you the file from /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
> > > Zeno, can you post your dmesg and .config, please?
> > Sure, see attached files.
>
> It looks like NO_BOOTMEM is enabled. You can try the attached patch (I
> need to post it again on the list).
>
>
> kmemleak: Add support for NO_BOOTMEM configurations
>
> From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
>
> With commits 08677214 and 59be5a8e, alloc_bootmem()/free_bootmem() and
> friends use the early_res functions for memory management when
> NO_BOOTMEM is enabled. This patch adds the kmemleak calls in the
> corresponding code paths for bootmem allocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

Makes sense.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Zeno, this should fix the kmemleak false positives but not the big 
pauses you're seeing.
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