Re: Kernel memory leak

2014-06-28 Thread Anil Shashikumar Belur
On Saturday 28 June 2014 12:29 PM, Santhosh Kumar wrote: > > Is there a way to trace the allocations of memory from different buckets of > kmalloc ? You could try out kmemleak - https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kmemleak.txt ___ Kernelnewbies mai

Kernel memory leak

2014-06-28 Thread Santhosh Kumar
I am suspecting a memory leak in a kernel module that does layer 2 switching of data packets. In the vmstat -m output the Num and Total keeps going up for the kmalloc-512.. kmalloc-512 15232 15264512 16 Is this a clear indication of leak in the kernel or can there be false