Re: tracking memory usage/leak in "inactive" field in /proc/meminfo?

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Fri Feb 12 2010 - 03:04:15 EST


> backtrace:
> [<ffffffff8061c162>] kmemleak_alloc_page+0x1eb/0x380
> [<ffffffff80276ae8>] __pagevec_lru_add_active+0xb6/0x104
> [<ffffffff80276b85>] lru_cache_add_active+0x4f/0x53
> [<ffffffff8027d182>] do_wp_page+0x355/0x6f6
> [<ffffffff8027eef1>] handle_mm_fault+0x62b/0x77c
> [<ffffffff80632557>] do_page_fault+0x3c7/0xba0
> [<ffffffff8062fb79>] error_exit+0x0/0x51
> [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>
> and
>
> backtrace:
> [<ffffffff8061c162>] kmemleak_alloc_page+0x1eb/0x380
> [<ffffffff80276ae8>] __pagevec_lru_add_active+0xb6/0x104
> [<ffffffff80276b85>] lru_cache_add_active+0x4f/0x53
> [<ffffffff8027eddc>] handle_mm_fault+0x516/0x77c
> [<ffffffff8027f180>] get_user_pages+0x13e/0x462
> [<ffffffff802a2f65>] get_arg_page+0x6a/0xca
> [<ffffffff802a30bf>] copy_strings+0xfa/0x1d4
> [<ffffffff802a31c7>] copy_strings_kernel+0x2e/0x43
> [<ffffffff802d33fb>] compat_do_execve+0x1fa/0x2fd
> [<ffffffff8021e405>] sys32_execve+0x44/0x62
> [<ffffffff8021def5>] ia32_ptregs_common+0x25/0x50
> [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>
> I'll dig into them further, but do either of these look like known issues?

no known issue.
AFAIK, 2.6.27 - 2.6.33 don't have such problem.


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