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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:13:25 +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 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?). > > Catalin I don't think so - no big load to that system, no excessive compiler runs ... -- MfG/Kind regards Toralf Förster pgp finger print: 7B1A 07F4 EC82 0F90 D4C2 8936 872A E508 7DB6 9DA3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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