Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Jun 2012 19:15:45 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: oomkillers gone wild. |
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > If we're leaking task_struct's, meaning that put_task_struct() isn't > > actually freeing them when the refcount goes to 0, then it's certainly not > > because of the oom killer which only sends a SIGKILL to the selected > > process. > > I rather suspect, that this is a asymetry between get_ and > put_task_struct and refcount just doesn't go to zero. >
We found an actual task_struct leak within put_task_struct() because of the free task notifiers during the 3.4 -rc cycle, so if kmemleak doesn't show anything then would it be possible to bisect the problem Dave?
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