From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: "Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Subject: Re: kmemleak disabled itself in 2.6.36
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:33:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288254789.10238.5.camel@e102109-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010272112.59520.toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 20:12 +0100, Toralf Förster wrote:
> I'm unsure whether this happens due to a
> $> sudo su -c "echo clear > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak"
> or while regular scanning, but anyway seems not to be normal, or ?
>
> 2010-10-27T20:42:21.697+02:00 n22 kernel: flush-254:0: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x0
[...]
> 2010-10-27T20:42:21.699+02:00 n22 kernel: kmemleak: Cannot allocate a kmemleak_object structure
> 2010-10-27T20:42:21.699+02:00 n22 kernel: Pid: 15475, comm: flush-254:0 Not tainted 2.6.36 #2
[...]
> 2010-10-27T20:42:21.700+02:00 n22 kernel: kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector disabled
Are you running out of memory on your system? Kmemleak tried to allocate
a structure but the slab allocator failed to get page. Kmemleak disables
itself in such situations but the problem is somewhere else (not enough
memory?).
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-28 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-27 19:12 Toralf Förster
2010-10-28 8:33 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2010-10-28 13:13 ` Toralf Förster
2010-10-28 13:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-10-29 8:31 ` Toralf Förster
2010-11-29 17:28 ` Toralf Förster
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