Re: kmemleak: Cannot allocate a kmemleak_object structure - Kernel 4.19.13

From: Nathan Royce
Date: Fri Jan 11 2019 - 02:06:09 EST


One more thought that may be nothing, but when kmemleak crashed,
SUnreclaim was at 932552 kB, and after reclaimed/cleared 299840 kB.
There weren't any performance issues like when I had a leak of 5.5 gB
in the 4.18 kernel.

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 3:52 AM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Under memory pressure, kmemleak may fail to allocate memory. See this
> patch for an attempt to slightly improve things but it's not a proper
> solution:
>
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190102180619.12392-1-cai@xxxxxx
>
> --
> Catalin