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* Kernel memory leak
@ 2014-06-28  6:59 Santhosh Kumar
  2014-06-28  9:21 ` Anil Shashikumar Belur
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From: Santhosh Kumar @ 2014-06-28  6:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kernelnewbies

I am suspecting a memory leak in a kernel module that does layer 2
switching of data packets.

In the vmstat -m output the Num and Total keeps going up for the
kmalloc-512..

kmalloc-512               15232  15264    512     16

Is this a clear indication of leak in the kernel or can there be false
positives ?

Is there a way to trace the allocations of memory from different buckets of
kmalloc ?

-Santhosh.
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