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On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:54:14PM -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote: > Al Viro wrote:> > >>Hmm... could there be a race in shmem_rename()??> > >Not likely - in that setup all calls of ->unlink() and ->rename() > >are completely serialized by ->i_sem on parent. One question: > >is it dcache or icache that ends up leaking?> > dcache. Here's some information I sent to dipankar earlier, with his > debug patch applied. This is within half a second of the oom killer > kicking in. Umm... How many RCU callbacks are pending? Since past the OOM you get the sucker back to normal... Sounds like you've got a bunch of dentries on their way to be freed, but the thing that should've been doing final kmem_cache_free() is getting postponed too much. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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