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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org"
	<bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 12832] New: kernel leaks a lot of memory
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:20:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090311082038.GA32129@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090311085738.4233df4e@mjolnir.ossman.eu>

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:57:38AM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:36:19 +0800
> Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > A quick question: are there any possibility of ftrace memory reservation?
> > 
> 
> You tell me. CONFIG_FTRACE was always disabled, but CONFIG_HAVE_*FTRACE
> is always on. FTRACE wasn't included in 2.6.26 though, and the bisect
> showed only ftrace commits. So it would explain things.

There are some __get_free_page() calls in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c,
maybe the pages are consumed by one of them?

Thanks,
Fengguang

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-11  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-12832-27@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2009-03-07 20:24 ` [Bug 12832] New: kernel leaks a lot of memory Andrew Morton
2009-03-07 21:00   ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-07 22:13     ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-07 22:53       ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-08 10:00       ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-08 10:36         ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-08 12:38           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-08 14:26             ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-08 15:54             ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-08 19:11               ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-08 19:23                 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-07 22:16     ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-09  1:37     ` Wu Fengguang
     [not found]       ` <20090309020701.GA381@localhost>
2009-03-09  7:40         ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-09 14:22           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-09 15:02             ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-10  2:41               ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-10  6:56                 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-10  8:19                 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-10  9:55                   ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-10 12:22                     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-10 13:11                       ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-10 15:52                         ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-10 20:21                         ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11  1:37                           ` Wu Fengguang
     [not found]                             ` <20090311075703.35de2488@mjolnir.ossman.eu>
2009-03-11  7:14                               ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-11  7:26                                 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11  7:36                                   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-11  7:57                                     ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11  8:20                                       ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2009-03-11 13:05                                         ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 13:00                                       ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-11 15:02                                         ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 15:47                                           ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-11 16:46                                             ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 21:43                                               ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-12  6:50                                                 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-12  1:08                                           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-12  6:55                                             ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-12  7:29                                               ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-11 14:25                                     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-11 14:35                                       ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 16:55                                       ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 17:28                                         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-11 18:33                                           ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 18:48                                             ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-11 18:56                                               ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 19:03                                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-12  2:46                                                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-12  6:53                                                     ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-10 19:58                       ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11  0:19                     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-11  7:22                       ` Pierre Ossman

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