linux-kernel - Re: kmemleak disabled itself in 2.6.36

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Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:31:28 +0200
From:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
Subject: Re: kmemleak disabled itself in 2.6.36


Catalin Marinas wrote at 15:33:22
> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:13 +0100, Toralf Förster wrote:
> > Catalin Marinas wrote at 10:33:09
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 20:12 +0100, Toralf Förster wrote:
> > > > I'm unsure whether this happens due to a
> > > > $> sudo su -c "echo clear > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak"
> > > > or while regular scanning, but anyway seems not to be normal, or ?
> > > > 
> > > > 2010-10-27T20:42:21.697+02:00 n22 kernel: flush-254:0: page
> > > > allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x0
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > 2010-10-27T20:42:21.699+02:00 n22 kernel: kmemleak: Cannot allocate a
> > > > kmemleak_object structure 2010-10-27T20:42:21.699+02:00 n22 kernel:
> > > > Pid: 15475, comm: flush-254:0 Not tainted 2.6.36 #2
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > 2010-10-27T20:42:21.700+02:00 n22 kernel: kmemleak: Kernel memory
> > > > leak detector disabled
> > > 
> > > Are you running out of memory on your system? Kmemleak tried to
> > > allocate a structure but the slab allocator failed to get page.
> > > Kmemleak disables itself in such situations but the problem is
> > > somewhere else (not enough memory?).
> > 
> > I don't think so - no big load to that system, no excessive compiler runs
> > ...
> 
> What does /proc/meminfo say after you got this error?
> 
> Which slab allocator are you using?
> 
> Catalin

These are the settings :

tfoerste@n22 ~ $ zgrep ^CONFIG_SL.B /proc/config.gz 
CONFIG_SLAB=y
CONFIG_SLABINFO=y

I didn't took a look into  /proc/meminfo when it happened.

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Toralf Förster

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