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From: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
To: Eli Cohen <elic@nvidia.com>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch,
	sam@ravnborg.org, dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: Change eats memory on my server
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:57:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a39c1b62-3e22-2454-d68b-e9eb510891d3@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210118074913.GA39161@mtl-vdi-166.wap.labs.mlnx>

Am 18.01.21 um 08:49 schrieb Eli Cohen:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 08:43:12AM +0100, Christian König wrote:
>> Hi Eli,
>>
>> have you already tried using kmemleak?
>>
>> This sounds like a leak of memory allocated using kmalloc(), so kmemleak
>> should be able to catch it.
>>
> Hi Christian,
>
> I have the following configured but I did not see any visible complaint
> in dmesg.
>
> CONFIG_HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE=16000
>
> Any other configuration that I need to set?

As long as you don't have any kernel parameters to enable it I think you 
need to do "echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak" to start a scan.

The result can then be queried using "cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak".

Regards,
Christian.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-18  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-14 15:15 Change eats memory on my server Eli Cohen
2021-01-15  9:03 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-01-17  5:08   ` Eli Cohen
2021-01-18  7:43     ` Christian König
2021-01-18  7:49       ` Eli Cohen
2021-01-18  7:57         ` Christian König [this message]
2021-01-18  9:12           ` Eli Cohen
2021-01-18  7:54       ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-01-18  9:13         ` Eli Cohen
2021-01-18  9:30           ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-01-18 10:39             ` Eli Cohen
2021-01-18 13:16             ` Eli Cohen
2021-01-18 13:20               ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-01-18 13:22                 ` Eli Cohen
2021-01-18 13:23                   ` Christian König
2021-01-18 14:48                     ` Thomas Zimmermann

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