Memory leak with dev_add_pack()

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hallo Michi,

first of all, thank you for your answer.

* On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 08:18:05AM +0100 Michael Blizek wrote:
 
> On 21:54 Fri 21 Jan     , Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
 
> - Does this also happen, if you do not call PromiscuousMode_Enter?

Yes, it does.

In fact, I only included it in my minimal example so the memory leak
happens faster, in case someone wants to give it a try himself.

> - Which user grows is /proc/slabinfo? (If this file is emply or does not
>   exist, you may meed to recompile the kernel to use slab instead of
>   sl[b-z]b)

Thank you for the pointer, it might help.

The objects which have changed the most on a mildly loaded network are:

25000 buffer_head
 5000 dentry
 5000 ext3_inode_cache
 5000 size-64

The number if the number of more active object after approx. 20h of
letting it run on the mildly loaded network.

Note that the ext3_inode_cache might have grown because I was regularly
writing a new log file from slabinfo (slabinfo --once > slabinfo.`date
+...`)

Thus, I would expect I am leaking buffer_head.


> - Which kernel version are you using? Have you tried different versions?

I am running this on a Debian Lenny (32 bit), Kernel 2.6.26-2-686, and
an Ubuntu 10.04, also 32 bit. Unfortunately this machine is currently
out of my reach, but I think it is a variant of 2.6.32 or 2.6.33.

Both kernels are from the distribution, that is, no vanilla kernels.
 

Beste Grüße
   Spiro.

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