linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.31-rc4 - slab entry tak_delay

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Date:	Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:03:56 +0200
From:	Paul Rolland <rol@...917.net>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc4 - slab entry tak_delay_info leaking ???

Hi Catalin,

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:53:33 +0100
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:

> Paul Rolland <rol@...917.net> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:20:47 +0200
> >> Paul Rolland <rol@...917.net> wrote:
> >> > Since I'm running 2.6.31-rc? (3 or 4 I think), I often find my
> >> > machine with my X session killed in the morning, and the kdm login
> >> > screen displayed.
> [...]
> > Well, I've killed my X session, and it stopped the "leak"... but
> > didn't recover the "lost" task_delay_info...
> 
> You could try to enable CONFIG_KMEMLEAK and see if you get any leaks
> reported for the "lost" task_delay_info (see Documentation/kmemleak.txt).

I'm now running a kmemleak-eanbled version of the kernel, and waiting for
the same problem to happen again.

In the meantime, my machine is kmemleak-complaining a lot :
Jul 31 20:57:35 tux kernel: kmemleak: 52 new suspected memory leaks
(see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) 
Jul 31 21:07:41 tux kernel: kmemleak: 34 new suspected memory leaks
(see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) 
Jul 31 21:17:47 tux kernel: kmemleak: 23 new suspected memory leaks
(see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) 
Jul 31 21:27:54 tux kernel: kmemleak: 33 new suspected memory leaks
(see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) 
Jul 31 21:38:01 tux kernel: kmemleak: 20 new suspected memory leaks
(see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) 
Jul 31 21:48:07 tux kernel: kmemleak: 21 new suspected memory leaks
(see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) 
Jul 31 21:58:15 tux kernel: kmemleak: 32 new suspected memory leaks 
(see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
 
What should I do with these reports ? Is there an easy way to check if they
are normal (false-positive) ?

Regards,
Paul

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