From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030297AbWGMTOd (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:14:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030298AbWGMTOd (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:14:33 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.182]:21263 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030297AbWGMTOc (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:14:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mslZVSIwMuYce0ssb+p4AIJ0jO5jHm+mdugepV5+Ji3nrtD/QKWHpYOIiIvaGz31yetDVuRQuhL40/nMcEueYsaXC2FONl0aVpQW4Vgx2d2v63DODrvKHDeintcjYDDH25B8Kqv72FYp5CrcHxwS+76uG5UWC4DHmXpFjQ+vwyc= Message-ID: <6bffcb0e0607131214l68232de8lf8cf03f805822f07@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:14:31 +0200 From: "Michal Piotrowski" To: "Catalin Marinas" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.8 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060710220901.5191.66488.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <6bffcb0e0607110902u4e24a4f2jc6acf2eb4c3bae93@mail.gmail.com> <6bffcb0e0607111000q228673a9kcbc6c91f76331885@mail.gmail.com> <6bffcb0e0607120435x31eceab7r3fdb055a7bee6da2@mail.gmail.com> <6bffcb0e0607121555n20a9df53q8589109024629f7a@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Catalin, On 13/07/06, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On 12/07/06, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > Please try something like this > > on tty1 > > isic -s rand -d your ip (http://www.packetfactory.net/Projects/ISIC/) > > on tty2 > > kml_collector (http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/o_bugs/kml/ml/kml_collector.sh) > > > > (I have tried to read random files from /sys on vanilla kernel, but I > > can't reproduce that lockup) > > Couldn't get it on my (embedded) platform but I think that's because > there are only a few reports in the memleak file. You have thousands > of reports and I think reading the memleak file is causing the soft > lockup. > > Until we identify the leak (or false positive), you can use the > attached patch to supress the reports for context_struct_to_string. > Hopefully, this should eliminate the soft lockup as well. Thanks. After applying context_struct_to_string-not-leak.patch and reverting alloc_skb-false-positive.patch I haven't noticed that soft lockup. Here is something new orphan pointer 0xf40d61ac (size 1536): c017392a: <__kmalloc_track_caller> c01631b1: <__kzalloc> f98869cd: f9888a1d: c02b17b6: c02b2e94: c02e6e17: c02e8a02: http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/o_bugs/kml/ml2/ http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/o_bugs/kml/ml3/ After alloc_skb-false-positive.patch revert http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/o_bugs/kml/ml4/ > > -- > Catalin Regards, Michal -- Michal K. K. Piotrowski LTG - Linux Testers Group (http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/wiki/)