linux-kernel - Re: perf: kernel memory leak when inherit enabled

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Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:26:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Vince Weaver <vweaver1@...s.utk.edu>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: perf: kernel memory leak when inherit enabled

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Vince Weaver wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 
> > Em Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 06:27:19PM -0400, Vince Weaver escreveu:
> > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > While trying to use perf events with inherit enabled to profile some 
> > > > multi-threaded BLAS routines (using PAPI) I ended up out-of-memorying my 
> > > > machine.  It turns out you can quickly leak gigabytes of kernel memory
> > > > that isn't freed when the process exits.
> > > 
> > > I've bisected this.  There's a whole day I'll never see again. binutils 
> > > 2.21 and gcc-4.5 for the lose :(
> > > 
> > > Anyway this memory leak with inherit was introduced in 
> > >   4fd38e4595e
> 
> This changeset was reverted already in 
> e3174cfd2a1e28fff774681f00a0eef3d31da970
> yet somehow that didn't fix the inherit mem-leak.

I see, a new fix was made immediately after the revert, 
   050735b08ca8a016bbace4445fa025b88fee770b
which probably immediately re-introduced the problem, which is why
git bisect didn't catch this.  I'm away from my test machine so I'll
have to wait until tomorrow before I can investigate more.

Vince
vweaver1@...s.utk.edu
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