Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753634Ab2KYWmA (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:42:00 -0500 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:53450 "HELO mailout-de.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753555Ab2KYWl7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:41:59 -0500 X-Authenticated: #4463548 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX188iGRW2Ek84K3/9DivThL7IhjsJH/lCPC+lSdOnw xvsd6N+llL0Y5Z Message-ID: <1353883315.22969.31.camel@soupermouf> Subject: kmemleak failure (was Re: backing up ext4 fs, system unresponsive, thrashing like crazy even though swap is unused) From: Dimitrios Apostolou To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:41:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1353871800.22969.28.camel@soupermouf> References: <1353851735.22969.18.camel@soupermouf> <1353871800.22969.28.camel@soupermouf> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4 (3.4.4-2.fc17) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 607 Lines: 21 Hello, I tried running a kmemleak and DEBUG_SLUB enabled kernel, but almost within 5 minutes of starting the backup process, I got: [ 486.863124] kmemleak: Cannot allocate a kmemleak_object structure [ 486.887195] kmemleak: Automatic memory scanning thread ended [ 486.906604] kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector disabled Any ideas? Thanks, Dimitris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/