Re: -rc3 leaking NOT BIO [Was: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?]

[Badari Pulavarty]

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 05:00, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:52 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > So it's probably an ndiswrapper bug?
> Andrew, 
> It looks like it is a kernel bug triggered by NdisWrapper. Without 
> NdisWrapper, and with just 8139too plus some light network activity the 
> size-64 grew from ~ 1100 to 4500 overnight. Is this normal? I will keep it 
> running to see where it goes.
> 
> A question - is it safe to assume it is  a kmalloc based leak? (I am thinking 
> of tracking it down by using kprobes to insert a probe into __kmalloc and 
> record the stack to see what is causing so many allocations.)
> 

Last time I debugged something like this, I ended up adding dump_stack()
in kmem_cache_alloc() for the specific slab.

If you are really interested, you can try to get following jprobe
module working. (need to teach about kmem_cache_t structure to
get it to compile and export kallsyms_lookup_name() symbol etc).

Thanks,
Badari




#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/kprobes.h>
#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
#include <linux/kdev_t.h>

MODULE_PARM_DESC(kmod, "\n");

int count = 0;
void fastcall inst_kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *cachep, int flags)
{
	if (cachep->objsize == 64) {
		if (count++ == 100) {
			dump_stack();
			count = 0;
		}
	}
	jprobe_return();
}
static char *fn_names[] = {
	"kmem_cache_alloc",
};

static struct jprobe kmem_probes[] = {
  {
    .entry = (kprobe_opcode_t *) inst_kmem_cache_alloc,
    .kp.addr=(kprobe_opcode_t *) 0,
  }
};

#define MAX_KMEM_ROUTINE (sizeof(kmem_probes)/sizeof(struct kprobe))

/* installs the probes in the appropriate places */
static int init_kmods(void)
{
	int i;

	for (i = 0; i < MAX_KMEM_ROUTINE; i++) {
		kmem_probes[i].kp.addr = kallsyms_lookup_name(fn_names[i]);
		if (kmem_probes[i].kp.addr) { 
			printk("plant jprobe at name %s %p, handler addr %p\n",
		          fn_names[i], kmem_probes[i].kp.addr, kmem_probes[i].entry);
			register_jprobe(&kmem_probes[i]);
		}
	}
	return 0;
}

static void cleanup_kmods(void)
{
	int i;
	for (i = 0; i < MAX_KMEM_ROUTINE; i++) {
		unregister_jprobe(&kmem_probes[i]);
	}
}

module_init(init_kmods);
module_exit(cleanup_kmods);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");