linux-kernel - Re: detecting kernel mem leak

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Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:58:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	sancelot@...e.fr, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: detecting kernel mem leak

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> or use a tool such as slabtop to see where the memory is going. If the
> memory is being leaked in the kmalloc caches, you can use
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK which part of the kernel is doing all those
> allocations (not really suitable for production machines).

For slub: Just enable debugging and then do a cat on 
/sys/kernel/slab/<cachename>/allocs or frees to see where memory is 
allocated or freed.

 
> Christoph, I suppose there's some option to
> Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c that provides similar output to
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK for SLUB?

If you run a report on a slabcache with f.e.

	slabinfo kmalloc-2048

and debugging is enabled then all functions that allocate and free objects 
in kmalloc-2048 are listed.

Just doing
	slabinfo

list all caches with the number of objects allocated.

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