On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 04:01:38AM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > In the case which is below, > > 1. acquire slab for cpu partial list > 2. free object to it by remote cpu > 3. page->freelist = t > > then memory leak is occurred. > > Change acquire_slab() not to zap freelist when it works for cpu partial list. > I think it is a sufficient solution for fixing a memory leak. > > Below is output of 'slabinfo -r kmalloc-256' > when './perf stat -r 30 hackbench 50 process 4000 > /dev/null' is done. > > ***Vanilla*** > Sizes (bytes) Slabs Debug Memory > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Object : 256 Total : 468 Sanity Checks : Off Total: 3833856 > SlabObj: 256 Full : 111 Redzoning : Off Used : 2004992 > SlabSiz: 8192 Partial: 302 Poisoning : Off Loss : 1828864 > Loss : 0 CpuSlab: 55 Tracking : Off Lalig: 0 > Align : 8 Objects: 32 Tracing : Off Lpadd: 0 > > ***Patched*** > Sizes (bytes) Slabs Debug Memory > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Object : 256 Total : 300 Sanity Checks : Off Total: 2457600 > SlabObj: 256 Full : 204 Redzoning : Off Used : 2348800 > SlabSiz: 8192 Partial: 33 Poisoning : Off Loss : 108800 > Loss : 0 CpuSlab: 63 Tracking : Off Lalig: 0 > Align : 8 Objects: 32 Tracing : Off Lpadd: 0 > > Total and loss number is the impact of this patch. > > Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@xxxxxxxxx> <formletter> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly. </formletter> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>