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From: "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
To: "Mike Galbraith" <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	"nmeyers@vestmark.com" <nmeyers@vestmark.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Major slab mem leak with 2.6.17 / GCC 4.1.1
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:07:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0610160107qff115d2r8adef99452560e16@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160976752.6477.3.camel@Homer.simpson.net>

On 16/10/06, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 07:59 +0000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > 2.6.19-rc1 + patch-2.6.19-rc1-kmemleak-0.11 compiles fine now (unless
> > CONFIG_DEBUG_KEEP_INIT is set), boots and runs too.. but axle grease
> > runs a lot faster ;-)  I'll try a stripped down config sometime.
>
> My roughly three orders of magnitude (amusing to watch:) boot slowdown
> turned out to be stack unwinding.  With CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO disabled,
> 2.6.19-rc2 + patch-2.6.19-rc1-kmemleak-0.11 runs just fine.

Kmemleak introduces some overhead but shouldn't be that bad.
DEBUG_SLAB also introduces an overhead by erasing the data in the
allocated blocks.

Note that if the allocated blocks are added to a list and never
removed, kmemleak won't be able to detect the leak as the objects are
stilled referred. In this case, you can only use DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK.

-- 
Catalin

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-16  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-13  0:49 nmeyers
2006-10-13  5:56 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-10-13 11:59   ` Catalin Marinas
2006-10-15  7:59     ` Mike Galbraith
2006-10-15 14:14       ` nmeyers
2006-10-15 17:59         ` Mike Galbraith
2006-10-18 13:59           ` Nathan Meyers
2006-10-16  5:32       ` Mike Galbraith
2006-10-16  8:07         ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2006-10-16  9:08           ` Mike Galbraith
2006-10-16  8:44             ` Catalin Marinas
2006-10-16  9:33               ` Mike Galbraith
2006-10-13  8:25 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-10-13 10:55   ` nmeyers
2006-10-13 21:28     ` Mike Galbraith

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