From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: DRM-related kmalloc-32 memory leak in 2.6.35
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:59:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282769949.3007.7.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1008241036250.344@router.home>
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:37 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> > kmalloc-32 1113344 1113344 32 128 1 : tunables 0 0
> > 0 : slabdata 8698 8698 0
> >
> > That's /proc/slabinfo on my laptop with SLUB. It looks like my last
> > reboot popped me back to 2.6.33 so it may also be old news, but I
> > couldn't spot any reports with Google.
>
> Boot with "slub_debug" as a kernel parameter
>
> and then do a
>
> cat /sys/kernel/slab/kmalloc-32/alloc_calls
>
> to find the caller allocating the objets.
Still present in 2.6.35. Appears to be DRM:
845 drm_vm_open_locked+0x72/0x109 age=43/37572/59269 pid=2089
cpus=0-1
That's after about a minute of uptime. Grows to 100k in about a day.
dmesg bits:
[ 0.834653] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 0.834986] pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 0.834995] pci 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 1.002572] mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
[ 1.002580] [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may suffer.
[ 1.019880] acpi device:03: registered as cooling_device2
[ 1.021520] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input3
[ 1.021543] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 1.021855] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
This is with:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
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2010-08-25 20:59 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2010-09-27 18:52 ` DRM-related kmalloc-32 memory leak in 2.6.35 Andrew Morton
2010-09-27 20:08 ` [PATCH] drm: Prune GEM vma entries Chris Wilson
2010-09-27 20:08 ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-27 20:28 ` Chris Wilson
2010-10-02 0:09 ` Matt Mackall
2010-10-03 18:59 ` Paul Rolland
2010-10-04 7:07 ` Paul Rolland
2010-09-27 20:40 ` DRM-related kmalloc-32 memory leak in 2.6.35 David Rientjes
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