Re: 3.x memleaks

From: Sid Boyce
Date: Wed Sep 07 2011 - 20:54:04 EST


On 07/09/11 11:58, Américo Wang wrote:
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Sid Boyce<sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Since 3.0 I have been seeing memleaks, right up to 3.1.0-rc5. This is
typical.
AMD x86_64, X2, X4's and openSUSE 12.1 Milestones.
unreferenced object 0xffff88022f007000 (size 512):
 comm "swapper", pid 1, jiffies 4294667649 (age 17727.056s)
 hex dump (first 32 bytes):
  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
 backtrace:
  [<ffffffff81490ba6>] kmemleak_alloc+0x56/0xb0
  [<ffffffff8113ca4c>] kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0x9c/0x1d0
  [<ffffffff81041ea7>] __sdt_alloc+0xa7/0x1e0
  [<ffffffff81042014>] __visit_domain_allocation_hell+0x34/0xc0
  [<ffffffff8104d489>] build_sched_domains+0x29/0x2e0
  [<ffffffff81c4c5de>] sched_init_smp+0x7d/0x168
  [<ffffffff81c36cca>] kernel_init+0xb8/0x159
  [<ffffffff814bfbb4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
Hello,

This should be fixed by: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/29/218

Thanks!

I applied the patch to 3.1-rc5 and it's still the same.
Regards
Sid.

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