linux-kernel - Re: pidns memory leak

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Message-ID: <m1ljiogfun.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:41:36 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Cedric Le Goater <legoater@...e.fr>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>, andrea@...share.com,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...l.ru>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pidns memory leak

Cedric Le Goater <legoater@...e.fr> writes:

> On 11/02/2009 11:47 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:38:18 -0600
>> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> This bug hasn't been fixed yet, has it?
>>>
>>> Well Suka did trace the bug to commit 7766755a2f249e7, and posted a patch
>>> to revert that, acked by Eric on Oct 20.  Suka, were you going to repost
>>> that patch?
>> 
>> Ah.  OK.  Thanks.  Found it in the backlog pile.
>
> We've added the patch to our patchset and we confirm that the pid_* leaks have 
> been reduced to 'nearly' nothing but we still have a lot of inodes and dentries
> leaks. I hope to find some time to investigate and reproduce with a small 
> scenario, we are running a LTP like testsuite in a container environment.

Does forcing a cache flush help with the other leaks?

Eric
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