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From: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>
To: Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	naveen yadav <yad.naveen@gmail.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: kmemleak for MIPS
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:54:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimu54k-EEqfN58-hNTTgc54HktEeao+TyaKD30Z@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=gMP6jQuQFovfsOX=7p-SSnwXoVLO_DVEpV63h@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have prepared the combined patch for kmemleak porting to MIPS. After
> applying the patch and enabling the kmemleak in Kernel, I can see one
> kernel memleak reported during booting itself:
> ..
> ..
>
> TCP cubic registered
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> NET: Registered protocol family 15
> kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector initialized
> rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: setting system clock to 2011-03-29 18:20:41 UTC (1301422841)
> kmemleak: Automatic memory scanning thread started
> EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs (hda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly on device 3:1.
> Freeing prom memory: 956k freed
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 244k freed
> modprobe: FATAL: Could not load
> /lib/modules/2.6.38-08826-g1788c20-dirty/modules.dep: No such file or
> directory
>
> INIT: version 2.86 booting
> Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevdudevd (863):
> /proc/863/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/863/oom_score_adj
> instead.
> .
> Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
> Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...kmemleak: 1 new suspected
> memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
> ....
> ....
>
> debian-mips:~#
> debian-mips:~# mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/
> debian-mips:~#  cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
> unreferenced object 0x8f90d000 (size 4096):
>  comm "swapper", pid 1, jiffies 4294937330 (age 815.000s)
>  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>  backtrace:
>    [<80529644>] alloc_large_system_hash+0x2f8/0x410
>    [<805383b4>] udp_table_init+0x4c/0x158
>    [<805384dc>] udp_init+0x1c/0x94
>    [<8053889c>] inet_init+0x184/0x2a0
>    [<80100584>] do_one_initcall+0x174/0x1e0
>    [<8051f348>] kernel_init+0xe4/0x174
>    [<80103d4c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18
>
>
> The standard kmemleak test case is behaving as expected. Based on
> this, I think, we can say that the kmemleak support for MIPS is
> working.
>
> Please let me know your comments.

This looks good to me.

thanks,
Daniel.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-29 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-02 13:54 naveen yadav
2011-03-24  9:27 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-03-24  9:55   ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-28 21:15     ` Maxin John
2011-03-29 10:40       ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-29 11:38         ` Maxin John
2011-03-29 11:50           ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-29 12:27             ` Maxin John
2011-03-29 19:36               ` Maxin John
2011-03-29 19:54                 ` Daniel Baluta [this message]
2011-03-30  9:15                 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-30  9:54                   ` Daniel Baluta
2011-03-30  9:58                     ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-30 11:03                     ` Maxin John
2011-03-30 11:24                       ` Daniel Baluta
2011-03-30 11:38                         ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-30 12:17                           ` Maxin John
2011-03-30 12:27                             ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-30 12:40                               ` Maxin John
2011-03-30 12:52                               ` Daniel Baluta
2011-03-30 13:17                                 ` Maxin John
2011-03-30 13:27                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-30 14:07                                     ` Maxin John
2011-03-30 14:07                                     ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-30 12:22                         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-30 10:08                   ` Maxin John
2011-03-30 14:28                 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-03-30 14:21         ` Ralf Baechle
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2009-11-02 17:07 Kmemleak for mips Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-03  9:23 ` Catalin Marinas

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