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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs_efi_item slab leak
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:54:05 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101221005405.GN5193@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101220113139.GA10324@infradead.org>

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 06:31:39AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:02:45AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Ok, after unmounting everything I can see two items in remaining in
> > the xfs_efi_item cache after an xfstests run. ??t's probably to do
> > with a filesystem shutdown not cleaning them up correctly. I'll put
> > it on my list of stuff to track down.
> 
> Does it still happen with your working tree?  The incorrect handling
> of IOP_UNPING with remove == 1 looks like it could cause something
> similar.

I haven't checked the current patch set - just on the kernel that I
was currently running - I'll do more analysis later this afternoon.
I agree that the IOP_UNPIN() handling is a likely culprit, though.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-12-21  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-17 18:04 xfs_efi_item slab leak Nick Piggin
2010-12-18  0:02 ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-20 11:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-21  0:54     ` Dave Chinner [this message]

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