I have a few doubts regarding Out of Memory .
1.Does memory leak in the kernel always lead to OOM ?
2. I wrote a kernel test module testing the memory leak , which on
exit kmallocs
exit_module ()
{
while(1)
kmalloc((8*1024),GFP_KERNEL);
}
so when i rmmod test , the kernel never panicked on OOM , but it
panicked on the page allocation stat (sorry for not attaching the
dump)
Does the kernel differentiate between a Memory Leak and a Out of
memory situation ?
Google didnt help me in the releation between memory leak and OOM .
Thanks,
Anand
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