linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.33.2 kmalloc-8 slab leaks ~512 objects per second

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Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 02:21:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@...hos.com>
cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Jerome Glisse <glisse@...edesktop.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.33.2 kmalloc-8 slab leaks ~512 objects per second

On Thu, 13 May 2010, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:

> > You could just enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK on 2.6.33, mount the debugfs
> > and do a 'cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak' after a half-hour or so.
> 
> I could do it if radeon/drm guys would be interested in those results? (Given
> how 2.6.34-rc7 is not leaking.)
> 

Did you get a chance to find out if kmemleak was able to identify the 
source of this problem?
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