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From: "Bruno Prémont" <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: Kernel leaking memory during FS scanning, regression?
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:38:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110426183859.6ff6279b@neptune.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110426112756.GF4308@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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On Tue, 26 April 2011 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 08:19:04AM +0200, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> > Though I will use the few minutes I have this evening to try to fetch
> > kernel traces of running tasks with sysrq+t which may eventually give
> > us a hint at where rcu_thread is stuck/waiting.
> 
> This would be very helpful to me!

Here it comes:

rcu_kthread (when build processes are STOPped):
[  836.050003] rcu_kthread     R running   7324     6      2 0x00000000
[  836.050003]  dd473f28 00000046 5a000240 dd65207c dd407360 dd651d40 0000035c dd473ed8
[  836.050003]  c10bf8a2 c14d63d8 dd65207c dd473f28 dd445040 dd445040 dd473eec c10be848
[  836.050003]  dd651d40 dd407360 ddfdca00 dd473f14 c10bfde2 00000000 00000001 000007b6
[  836.050003] Call Trace:
[  836.050003]  [<c10bf8a2>] ? check_object+0x92/0x210
[  836.050003]  [<c10be848>] ? init_object+0x38/0x70
[  836.050003]  [<c10bfde2>] ? free_debug_processing+0x112/0x1f0
[  836.050003]  [<c103d9fd>] ? lock_timer_base+0x2d/0x70
[  836.050003]  [<c13c8ec7>] schedule_timeout+0x137/0x280
[  836.050003]  [<c10c02b8>] ? kmem_cache_free+0xe8/0x140
[  836.050003]  [<c103db60>] ? sys_gettid+0x20/0x20
[  836.050003]  [<c13c9064>] schedule_timeout_interruptible+0x14/0x20
[  836.050003]  [<c10736e0>] rcu_kthread+0xa0/0xc0
[  836.050003]  [<c104de00>] ? wake_up_bit+0x70/0x70
[  836.050003]  [<c1073640>] ? rcu_process_callbacks+0x60/0x60
[  836.050003]  [<c104d874>] kthread+0x74/0x80
[  836.050003]  [<c104d800>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0x90/0x90
[  836.050003]  [<c13caeb6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd

a few minutes later when build processes have been killed:
[  966.930008] rcu_kthread     R running   7324     6      2 0x00000000
[  966.930008]  dd473f28 00000046 5a000240 dd65207c dd407360 dd651d40 0000035c dd473ed8
[  966.930008]  c10bf8a2 c14d63d8 dd65207c dd473f28 dd445040 dd445040 dd473eec c10be848
[  966.930008]  dd651d40 dd407360 ddfdca00 dd473f14 c10bfde2 00000000 00000001 000007b6
[  966.930008] Call Trace:
[  966.930008]  [<c10bf8a2>] ? check_object+0x92/0x210
[  966.930008]  [<c10be848>] ? init_object+0x38/0x70
[  966.930008]  [<c10bfde2>] ? free_debug_processing+0x112/0x1f0
[  966.930008]  [<c103d9fd>] ? lock_timer_base+0x2d/0x70
[  966.930008]  [<c13c8ec7>] schedule_timeout+0x137/0x280
[  966.930008]  [<c10c02b8>] ? kmem_cache_free+0xe8/0x140
[  966.930008]  [<c103db60>] ? sys_gettid+0x20/0x20
[  966.930008]  [<c13c9064>] schedule_timeout_interruptible+0x14/0x20
[  966.930008]  [<c10736e0>] rcu_kthread+0xa0/0xc0
[  966.930008]  [<c104de00>] ? wake_up_bit+0x70/0x70
[  966.930008]  [<c1073640>] ? rcu_process_callbacks+0x60/0x60
[  966.930008]  [<c104d874>] kthread+0x74/0x80
[  966.930008]  [<c104d800>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0x90/0x90
[  966.930008]  [<c13caeb6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd

Attached (gzipped) the complete dmesg log (dmesg-t1 contains dmesg from boot until
after first sysrq+t  -- dmesg-t2 the output of sysrq+t 2 minutes later
after having killed build processes).
Just in case, I joined slabinfo.
Ten minutes later rcu_kthread trace has not changed at all.

> 
> For my part, I will use some plane time today to stare at my code some
> more and see what bugs I can find.

Possibly useful detail, it's somewhere during my compile that rcu_kthread
seems to stop doing its job as after booting things look fine (no slabs
piling up). Some part of the whole emerge -> configure and/or emerge -> make -> gcc
process tree must be confusing kernel as it's only then that things
start piling up (don't know if other kinds of work trigger it as well)

Bruno

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-26 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-24 18:21 2.6.39-rc4+: Kernel leaking memory during FS scanning, regression? Bruno Prémont
2011-04-24 21:59 ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-25  2:42   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-25  7:47     ` Mike Frysinger
2011-04-25  9:17       ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-25  9:25         ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-25 10:34           ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-25 11:41             ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-25 11:47               ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-25 12:11                 ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-25 12:14                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-04-25 12:21                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-04-25 15:22         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-25 16:04           ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-25 16:31             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-25 17:00               ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-25 17:10                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-25 17:20                   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-25 18:36                   ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-25 19:16                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-25 21:10                       ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-25 21:26                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-25 21:30                         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-25 21:49                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-26  6:19                             ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-26 11:27                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-26 16:38                                 ` Bruno Prémont [this message]
2011-04-26 17:09                                   ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-26 17:18                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-26 22:28                                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-27  6:15                                         ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-27 18:41                                           ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-27 19:16                                             ` Pádraig Brady
2011-04-27 19:34                                               ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-27 22:05                                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-27 20:40                                             ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-27 22:07                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-28  6:10                                                 ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-27 22:06                                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-27 22:27                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-27 22:32                                                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-27 22:59                                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-27 23:28                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-27 23:46                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-28  9:09                                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-28  9:17                                                 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-28  9:40                                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-28 10:12                                                     ` Mike Galbraith
2011-04-28  9:45                                                 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-28 10:26                                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-28 13:30                                                     ` Mike Galbraith
2011-04-28 15:28                                                       ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-28 15:44                                                         ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-28 15:48                                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-28 18:49                                                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-28 20:23                                                           ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-28 20:29                                                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-28 20:44                                                               ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-28 21:04                                                                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-28 21:51                                                                   ` john stultz
2011-04-28 22:02                                                                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-28 23:06                                                                       ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-28 23:35                                                                         ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-29  0:42                                                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-29  9:34                                                                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-29  7:55                                                                       ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-29 18:09                                                                       ` Mike Frysinger
2011-04-29 18:26                                                                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-29 19:31                                                                       ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-29 20:10                                                                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-29 20:14                                                                           ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-30  9:14                                                                             ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-28 20:41                                                           ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-28 19:22                                                         ` Mike Galbraith
2011-04-27 21:55                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-28  6:22                                           ` Bruno Prémont
2011-04-28 10:26                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-26 17:12                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-26 18:50                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-26 19:17                                       ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-27 22:02                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-25 22:08                         ` Mike Frysinger
2011-04-25 17:29                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-25 18:13                   ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-25 18:28                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-25 17:26               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-04-27 10:28               ` Catalin Marinas
2011-04-25 17:51           ` Pekka Enberg

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