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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tracking down a memory leak
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 04:02:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050628040217.0132d9cc.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1119950283.26948.271.camel@Frodo.esi>

Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it> wrote:
>
> Thanks to everybody who replied to me. Here's more data:
> 
>  sh-2.05b# sort -rn +1 /proc/slabinfo | head -5
>  biovec-1          7502216 7502296     16  226    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata  33196  33196      0
>  bio               7502216 7502262     96   41    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata 182982 182982      0

Are you using RAID?




From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>

insert a missing bio_put when writing the md superblock.

Without this we have a steady growth in the "bio" slab.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 drivers/md/md.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff -puN drivers/md/md.c~md-bio-leak-fix drivers/md/md.c
--- 25/drivers/md/md.c~md-bio-leak-fix	2005-06-27 22:29:13.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/md.c	2005-06-27 22:29:13.000000000 -0700
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ static int super_written(struct bio *bio
 
 	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&rdev->mddev->pending_writes))
 		wake_up(&rdev->mddev->sb_wait);
+	bio_put(bio);
 	return 0;
 }
 
_


  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-28 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-20 10:33 Marco Colombo
2005-06-28  9:18 ` Marco Colombo
2005-06-28 11:02   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-06-28 13:38     ` Marco Colombo

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