On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:26:58AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > dentry_cache 999168 1024594 208 19 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : > slabdata 53926 53926 0 : shrinker stat 18522624 8871000 > > Hrm interesting is this one: > > sock_inode_cache 996784 996805 704 5 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : > slabdata 199361 199361 0 > > Most of the leaked dentries seem to be sockets. I didn't notice this earlier.
ITYM "all". You've got 2384 non-socket dentries, which is about what I'd expect on severely pressured busy system... > This was with the debugging patches applied btw. > > So maybe we have a socket leak? Looks like that. Note: /proc/slab_allocators won't help here; all allocations into that cache are done from sock_alloc_inode(), which is what will be shown. Not useful... Moreover, call chain is predictable several steps deeper than that: sock_alloc_inode() (as ->alloc_inode()) from alloc_inode() from new_inode() from sock_alloc(). FWIW... One thing that might be useful here: a) slab_set_creator(objp, cachep, address): no-op unless DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK set, void slab_set_creator(void *objp, struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *address) { if (cachep->flags & SLAB_STORE_USER) *dbg_userword(cachep, objp) = address; } otherwise (has to be function in mm/slab.c; exported). b) void slab_charge_here(void *objp, struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *address) { slab_set_creator(objp, cachep, __builtin_return_address(0)); } in mm/slab.c (exported) c) #define slab_charge_caller(objp, cachep) \ slab_set_creator((objp), (cachep), __builtin_return_address(0)) Then we can do the following: in sock_alloc() have slab_charge_caller(container_of(inode, struct socket_alloc, vfs_inode), sock_inode_cachep); and _then_ /proc/slab_allocators will charge these guys to callers of sock_alloc(); if you'll need to pursue it further, you can always slap more slab_charge_...() where needed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html