Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: Kernel leaking memory during FS scanning,regression?

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> On Fri, 29 April 2011 Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, john stultz wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 23:04 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > /me suspects hrtimer changes to be the real culprit.
> > > 
> > > I'm not seeing anything on right off, but it does smell like
> > > e06383db9ec591696a06654257474b85bac1f8cb would be where such an issue
> > > would crop up.
> > > 
> > > Bruno, could you try checking out e06383db9ec, confirming it still
> > > occurs (and then maybe seeing if it goes away at e06383db9ec^1)?
> > > 
> > > I'll keep digging in the meantime.
> > 
> > I found the bug already. The problem is that sched_init() calls
> > init_rt_bandwidth() which calls hrtimer_init() _BEFORE_
> > hrtimers_init() is called.
> > 
> > That was unnoticed so far as the CLOCK id to hrtimer base conversion
> > was hardcoded. Now we use a table which is set up at hrtimers_init(),
> > so the bandwith hrtimer ends up on CLOCK_REALTIME because the table is
> > in the bss.
> > 
> > The patch below fixes this, by providing the table statically rather
> > than runtime initialized. Though that whole ordering wants to be
> > revisited.
> 
> Works here as well (applied alone), /proc/$(pidof rcu_kthread)/sched shows
> total runtime continuing to increase beyond 950 and slubs continue being
> released!

Does the CPU time show up in top/ps as well now ?

Thanks,

	tglx