Re: 2.6.33.2 kmalloc-8 slab leaks ~512 objects per second

[Tvrtko Ursulin]

On Thursday 13 May 2010 13:29:49 Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 May 2010 14:00:51 Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> You might want to try out the built-in kernel memory leak detector.
> >> See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for details how to enable it and use
> >> it.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion, I will have to try it out once but not this
> > time :) because 2.6.34-rc7 seems to be fine, or in other words not
> > leaking.
>
> You could just enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK on 2.6.33, mount the debugfs
> and do a 'cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak' after a half-hour or so.

I could do it if radeon/drm guys would be interested in those results? (Given
how 2.6.34-rc7 is not leaking.)

Tvrtko

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