On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 16:32:57 +0100 Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/04/2015 04:00 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > On 03/04/2015 04:20 PM, Daniel Wagner wrote: > >> On 03/03/2015 01:55 AM, Jeff Layton wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 15:25:12 +0100 > >>> Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > > <> > >> I have fixed that stuff and now I am testing it. Though it seems > >> that there is a memory leak which can be triggered with > >> > >> while true; rm -rf /tmp/a; ./lease02 /tmp/a; done > >> > >> and this happens also without any of my patches. Still trying to > >> figure out what's happening. Hopefully I just see a ghost. > >> > >> slabtop tells me that ftrace_event_field is constantly growing: > >> > > > > check out the Kernel's leak detector it is perfect in showing you > > what was the exact call stack of the leaked memory. > > Thanks for the tip. Will use it in future :) > > I have done a quick bisect limit the search on fs/locks.c. > I suspect that the file_lock_context refactoring is the source of the leak. > bisect agrees with me > > > 8634b51f6ca298fb8b07aa4847340764903533ab is the first bad commit > commit 8634b51f6ca298fb8b07aa4847340764903533ab > Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Jan 16 15:05:55 2015 -0500 > > locks: convert lease handling to file_lock_context > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > > :040000 040000 4114db9392dc4dadb30664b71a954321e5e87bab 5b9abbaf1808a7c926c09fa2164044e0cc26fd54 M fs > :040000 040000 bd569f527a195edf673c4f7d0e80bf356c7f8d1b 6362646e04dd83efc1a9e92877900797ac879e9a M include > Thanks. I'll take a look. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html