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SubjectRe: kmemleak for MIPS
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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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