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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se, cd@cdaniel.de, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: "dst cache overflow"
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:24:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040921152411.72b4092e.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040921215501.GE3236@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org>

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:55:02 +0200
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> wrote:

> I bet that something inside the kernel forgets dst_release().. IMQ is
> just compiled, not used (so I don't see how it should come from this).
> 
> Any comments, suggestions?

Most likely it is a leak like that, yes.

Here is my suggstion for debugging this:

1) Boot with profile=2 or similar.
2) Disable the platform code that bumps the profiling
   counters at the timer interrupt.
3) Make every piece of which gets or puts a dst entry
   reference pass it's PC to some function which
   increments the profile buffer entry.  (use
   current_text_addr())

Then after running for some time use readprofile to figure
out what subsystem or area is causing the references.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-21 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-20 19:44 "dst cache overflow" Robert Olsson
2004-09-20 17:07 ` Christian Daniel
2004-09-21 21:55   ` Harald Welte
2004-09-21 22:24     ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-09-21 22:49   ` Patrick McHardy
2004-09-22  1:20     ` Harald Welte

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