Re: [RFC v2 3/4] locks: Split insert/delete block functions into flock/posix parts

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Wed Mar 04 2015 - 12:59:33 EST


On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 16:32:57 +0100
Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 03/04/2015 04:00 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> > On 03/04/2015 04:20 PM, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> >> On 03/03/2015 01:55 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 15:25:12 +0100
> >>> Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> > <>
> >> I have fixed that stuff and now I am testing it. Though it seems
> >> that there is a memory leak which can be triggered with
> >>
> >> while true; rm -rf /tmp/a; ./lease02 /tmp/a; done
> >>
> >> and this happens also without any of my patches. Still trying to
> >> figure out what's happening. Hopefully I just see a ghost.
> >>
> >> slabtop tells me that ftrace_event_field is constantly growing:
> >>
> >
> > check out the Kernel's leak detector it is perfect in showing you
> > what was the exact call stack of the leaked memory.
>
> Thanks for the tip. Will use it in future :)
>
> I have done a quick bisect limit the search on fs/locks.c.
> I suspect that the file_lock_context refactoring is the source of the leak.
> bisect agrees with me
>
>
> 8634b51f6ca298fb8b07aa4847340764903533ab is the first bad commit
> commit 8634b51f6ca298fb8b07aa4847340764903533ab
> Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri Jan 16 15:05:55 2015 -0500
>
> locks: convert lease handling to file_lock_context
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>
> :040000 040000 4114db9392dc4dadb30664b71a954321e5e87bab 5b9abbaf1808a7c926c09fa2164044e0cc26fd54 M fs
> :040000 040000 bd569f527a195edf673c4f7d0e80bf356c7f8d1b 6362646e04dd83efc1a9e92877900797ac879e9a M include
>

Thanks. I'll take a look.

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Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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