From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>,
Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>, Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>,
David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, sri@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
mashirle@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: kvm memory leak (Was Re: vhost-net patches)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:50:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE98F82.9060304@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE988B8.30007@redhat.com>
On 10/29/2009 02:21 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/28/2009 06:46 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:36:18AM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote:
>>> Hello Michael,
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 17:27 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>> Possibly GFP_ATOMIC allocations in vring_add_indirect are failing?
>>>> Is there a chance you are tight on guest memory for some reason?
>>>> with vhost, virtio does currently consume a bit more memory than
>>>> with userspace backend.
>>> I did see memory leak on host every time after exiting guest. I don't
>>> know where. Do you see it?
>> I don't see a leak specific to vhost. However, even without vhost,
>> starting up guest increases kmalloc-128 counter in /proc/slabinfo
>> and this fails to go down when qemu is killed.
>>
>> Anyone else seeing this?
>
> I'm seeing it, but starting a new guest seems to reclaim this memory.
> I'll enable debug and see what's the cause.
>
kmemleak doesn't see any kvm memory leaks.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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2009-10-19 22:56 ` vhost-net patches Sridhar Samudrala
2009-10-20 10:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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2009-10-20 11:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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2009-10-20 17:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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2009-10-20 17:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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2009-10-21 20:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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2009-10-22 9:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 10:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 12:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 13:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 17:23 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-22 17:32 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-22 17:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 17:44 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-22 17:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 17:56 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-22 18:13 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-22 17:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-22 18:00 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2009-10-23 7:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-23 11:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-23 15:02 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-23 15:12 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-23 16:23 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-25 10:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-25 17:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-26 9:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-26 21:35 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-26 20:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-26 21:34 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-27 6:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-27 14:46 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-27 15:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-27 16:36 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-27 20:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-28 15:55 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-28 15:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-28 16:45 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-28 16:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-28 18:12 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-29 7:11 ` Shirley Ma
2009-11-02 19:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-03 1:06 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2009-11-03 15:52 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-28 20:55 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-28 16:46 ` kvm memory leak (Was Re: vhost-net patches) Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-29 12:21 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-29 12:50 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-10-23 19:24 ` vhost-net patches Shirley Ma
2009-10-25 9:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-26 21:37 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-27 6:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-27 14:48 ` Shirley Ma
2009-10-28 17:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-28 18:13 ` Shirley Ma
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