Re: Huge memory leak in virtio, see kvm-Bugs-2989366

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<08761DCA-B8FA-41C8-A839-52E09BC06824@xxxxxxx>; from Alexander Graf on Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 00:51:21 +0200

> > -039b9000-5ccd0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
> > +039b9000-65803000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
> > 
> > (a heap leak?)
> > 
> > I'm willing to debug further. The problem is 100% reproducible.
> 
> Certainly something malloc()'ed. It'd be great to send this through valgrind. Thanks to KVM the guest still runs natively, so the slowdown isn't _that_ bug through it. I'm also not a valgrind expert, but IIRC there was a separate memory allocation module.

Unfortunately, KVM guests with virtio won't even finish booting with valgrind. 
The guest's kernel complains about I/O errors in the first sectors of the
virtio root device.


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