Re: /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak empty despite kmemleak reports

Dear Catalin,


Am 13.07.20 um 20:27 schrieb Catalin Marinas:

On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 11:08:52PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:

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Am 09.07.20 um 19:57 schrieb Catalin Marinas:

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On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 04:37:10PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:

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Despite Linux 5.8-rc4 reporting memory leaks on the IBM POWER 8 S822LC, the
file does not contain more information.

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$ dmesg
[…] > [48662.953323] perf: interrupt took too long (2570 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 77750
[48854.810636] perf: interrupt took too long (3216 > 3212), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 62000
[52300.044518] perf: interrupt took too long (4244 > 4020), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 47000
[52751.373083] perf: interrupt took too long (5373 > 5305), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 37000
[53354.000363] perf: interrupt took too long (6793 > 6716), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 29250
[53850.215606] perf: interrupt took too long (8672 > 8491), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 23000
[57542.266099] perf: interrupt took too long (10940 > 10840), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 18250
[57559.645404] perf: interrupt took too long (13714 > 13675), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 14500
[61608.697728] Can't find PMC that caused IRQ
[71774.463111] kmemleak: 12 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
[92372.044785] process '@/usr/bin/gnatmake-5' started with executable stack
[92849.380672] FS-Cache: Loaded
[92849.417269] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
[92849.595974] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[92849.596000] Key type id_resolver registered
[92849.596000] Key type id_legacy registered
[101808.079143] kmemleak: 1 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
[106904.323471] Can't find PMC that caused IRQ
[129416.391456] kmemleak: 1 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
[158171.604221] kmemleak: 34 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
$ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

When they are no longer present, they are most likely false positives.

How can this be? Shouldn’t the false positive also be logged in
`/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak`?

Sorry, I wasn't clear. It can be a transient false positive. At a
subsequent scan, kmemleak found pointer referring the previously
reported objects and no longer shows them.

Interesting. Is it possible to print a message in that case to avoid 
confusion?

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Was this triggered during boot? Or under some workload?

 From the timestamps it looks like under some load.

Was it during boot? I put a delay of 60s to avoid this but, depending on
the platform, it can still trigger.

No, it happened after several hours of runtime.


Kind regards,

Paul