From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755876Ab3AWPco (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:32:44 -0500 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:52981 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755280Ab3AWPcn (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:32:43 -0500 Message-ID: <5100022D.9050106@web.de> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:30:53 +0100 From: Soeren Moch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Lunn CC: Arnd Bergmann , Jason Cooper , Greg KH , Thomas Petazzoni , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, Kyungmin Park , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Marek Szyprowski , linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Sebastian Hesselbarth Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: dmapool: use provided gfp flags for all dma_alloc_coherent() calls References: <20121119144826.f59667b2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <201301171049.30415.arnd@arndb.de> <50F800EB.6040104@web.de> <201301172026.45514.arnd@arndb.de> <50FABBED.1020905@web.de> <20130119185907.GA20719@lunn.ch> In-Reply-To: <20130119185907.GA20719@lunn.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:QwxoGWIgir/MwVGQelENifedLzYYnGNf1iTjuKp0jK9 XV5vckb3I1ajOPv5NxXROkR+7KkviPbGfqC9HGS8nEXrwyMnPU 8hwThg8B3qHqvvaOOWMmvY0iCFRhH68y9Yh0jgHpTPwAqIs5z5 vLksFjjLHC4XDcgrC9v1KS1JI8ZP2Fr/kFgqF0RNzZ87molzuh fAwP5S4ZBQcoCHUEgGApw== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 19.01.2013 19:59, Andrew Lunn wrote: >> Please find attached a debug log generated with your patch. >> >> I used the sata disk and two em28xx dvb sticks, no other usb devices, >> no ethernet cable connected, tuners on saa716x-based card not used. >> >> What I can see in the log: a lot of coherent mappings from sata_mv >> and orion_ehci, a few from mv643xx_eth, no other coherent mappings. >> All coherent mappings are page aligned, some of them (from orion_ehci) >> are not really small (as claimed in __alloc_from_pool). >> >> I don't believe in a memory leak. When I restart vdr (the application >> utilizing the dvb sticks) then there is enough dma memory available >> again. > > Hi Soeren > > We should be able to rule out a leak. Mount debugfg and then: > > while [ /bin/true ] ; do cat /debug/dma-api/num_free_entries ; sleep 60 ; done > > while you are capturing. See if the number goes down. > > Andrew Now I built a kernel with debugfs enabled. It is not clear to me what I can see from the dma-api/num_free_entries output. After reboot (vdr running) I see decreasing numbers (3453 3452 3445 3430...), min_free_entries is lower (3390). Sometimes the output is constant for several minutes ( 3396 3396 3396 3396 3396,...) Soeren