Re: [kmemleak report 0/2] kernel 3.1.6, x86_64

[Catalin Marinas]

On 15 January 2012 22:29, Roland Eggner <edvx1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It looks like memory leaks are “eating” 1G+ after only 1 week uptime … that's
> not nice.

Does your system actually lose this memory or they are just be false
positives? We've known since around 3.1 that kmemleak has some issues
with per-cpu memory allocations and reporting false positives. The
patches just went in (to be visible in 3.3-rc1). Alternatively, you
could cherry-pick them from here:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=029aeff5db879afd7760f11214b6fea45f76b58e

(commit f528f0b8e5 "kmemleak: Handle percpu memory allocation" is the
one you would need)

Thanks.

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Catalin
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