Re: How to detect slab memory leak

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On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 6:58 PM Naruto Nguyen <narutonguyen2018@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Harsh and Mulyadi,

Thanks a lot  for your reply.

Just another question, in the slabtop output, I see that we have
kmalloc-64 and kmalloc-96 cache, when these caches increase their
size, is it calculated in the "cache" of the "free" command or in
"used".

If the cache is used for page cache related operations, then AFAIK it is calculated in cache. If not, say for mmap non file backed operation, then it is calculated in overall used.
 
Is it reclaimable?

AFAIK yes, as long as it is not locked after being allocated.
 
and count in SReclaimable or SUnreclaim of
cat /proc/meminfo? I know some cache like dentry or inode cache will
be calculated in "cache" of free command output and SReclaimable of
cat /proc/meminfo and can be freed by "echo 3 >
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" but not sure if it the same situation for
kmalloc-64 and kmalloc-96 cache.

Thanks again,
Brs,
Bao

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 15:31, Harsh Jain <harshjain.prof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> You can try kernel config option "CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK".
>
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/dev-tools/kmemleak.html
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 1:14 PM Mulyadi Santosa
> <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 1:25 PM Naruto Nguyen <narutonguyen2018@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> When using slabtop to display the cache size growing, I see that
> >> kmalloc-1024 and kmalloc-256 are increasing about 200MB after 1 hour.
> >> Is there any way to detect which kernel components cause this slab
> >> increase?
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot,
> >> Brs,
> >> Naruto
> >>
> >
> > Hello Naruto
> >
> > I think you can do it by instrumenting call to kmalloc(). These days, eBPF is the hot stuff to try for this matter. See if it fits yours too.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Mulyadi
> >
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