From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com>,
naveen yadav <yad.naveen@gmail.com>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: kmemleak for MIPS
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:15:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301476505.29074.47.camel@e102109-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=gMP6jQuQFovfsOX=7p-SSnwXoVLO_DVEpV63h@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 20:36 +0100, Maxin John wrote:
> I have prepared the combined patch for kmemleak porting to MIPS. After
> applying the patch and enabling the kmemleak in Kernel, I can see one
> kernel memleak reported during booting itself:
...
> unreferenced object 0x8f90d000 (size 4096):
> comm "swapper", pid 1, jiffies 4294937330 (age 815.000s)
> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
> backtrace:
> [<80529644>] alloc_large_system_hash+0x2f8/0x410
> [<805383b4>] udp_table_init+0x4c/0x158
> [<805384dc>] udp_init+0x1c/0x94
> [<8053889c>] inet_init+0x184/0x2a0
> [<80100584>] do_one_initcall+0x174/0x1e0
> [<8051f348>] kernel_init+0xe4/0x174
> [<80103d4c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18
If you for the kmemleak scan (via echo) a few times, do you get more
leaks? The udp_table_init() function looks like it could leak some
memory but I haven't seen it before. I'm not sure whether this is a
false positive or a real leak.
>
> Please let me know your comments.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
I think the last line should be more like:
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-30 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-02 13:54 kmemleak for MIPS naveen yadav
2011-03-24 9:27 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-03-24 9:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-28 21:15 ` Maxin John
2011-03-29 10:40 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-29 11:38 ` Maxin John
2011-03-29 11:50 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-29 12:27 ` Maxin John
2011-03-29 19:36 ` Maxin John
2011-03-29 19:54 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-03-30 9:15 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2011-03-30 9:54 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-03-30 9:58 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-30 11:03 ` Maxin John
2011-03-30 11:24 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-03-30 11:38 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-30 12:17 ` Maxin John
2011-03-30 12:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-30 12:40 ` Maxin John
2011-03-30 12:52 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-03-30 13:17 ` Maxin John
2011-03-30 13:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-30 14:07 ` Maxin John
2011-03-30 14:07 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-30 12:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-30 10:08 ` Maxin John
2011-03-30 14:28 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-03-30 14:21 ` Ralf Baechle
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2009-11-02 17:07 Kmemleak for mips Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-03 9:23 ` Catalin Marinas
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